Michael Lutter

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Michael Lutter

Michael Lutter

@_mlutter

Robotics & AI Research Scientist @BostonDynamics 🤖🧠 . Prev: @DeepMind, @NVIDIAAI, @ias_tudarmstadt & @TU_Muenchen

Cambridge MA Katılım Kasım 2012
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Michael Lutter
Michael Lutter@_mlutter·
Most people love talking about AI, but it's only part of what keeps the robot standing. The unglamorous stuff becomes critical when you don't get a second chance. The hardware, firmware, and communication have to work flawlessly when it counts at the World Cup! (4/5)
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Michael Lutter@_mlutter·
Tricks that work in the lab don't work at the World Cup! 🧵(1/5)
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Michael Lutter@_mlutter·
In 2018, I didn’t recognize the importance of the original DeepMimic paper. At the time, humanoid robots were rare and domain randomization was still relatively new. Today, many demos and whole-body controllers are powered by DeepMimic-inspired methods. 🧵
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Michael Lutter@_mlutter·
Everyone's talking about VLAs, the problems with teleoperation, using sim-to-real RL for dexterous manipulation, and whether tactile sensing is actually necessary. If you're working on any of these, reach out. I'm at ICRA all week and happy to talk.
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Michael Lutter@_mlutter·
Day one of ICRA 2026 done! 🤖 Already feels like the biggest robotics conference I've been to. The expo floor is packed with new anthropomorphic hands, half-humanoids and mini humanoids.
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Michael Lutter@_mlutter·
@tarikkelestemur The policy tracks an animated trajectory to achieve the fridge carry. So the full body rotation comes from the trajectory and corresponding reward.
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Tarik Kelestemur
Tarik Kelestemur@tarikkelestemur·
@_mlutter I'm curious if the full body rotation was a specific reward term or it was an emergent behavior from the PPO training?
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Michael Lutter@_mlutter·
Everyone's talking about VLAs and VLMs for robotics. For humanoids, the whole body controller underneath matters a lot too. Without good whole body control, even the most capable VLA can't complete the task. 🧵 x.com/i/status/20563…
Boston Dynamics@BostonDynamics

Everyone asks if Atlas can bring them a drink, but this robot can bring you the whole fridge. Using AI-driven behaviors, Atlas is doing hard work and coordinating its whole body to manage heavy objects, balancing complex contact points with accuracy and reliability.

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Michael Lutter@_mlutter·
@chris_j_paxton Yes we have polished this pipeline to produce demos fast. The fridge carry was Vinays first project at Boston Dynamics. He was able to achieve the fridge carry within his first weeks! There is also more to come for the Fifa world cup!
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Chris Paxton
Chris Paxton@chris_j_paxton·
New/mass production atlas carrying an entire mini fridge like it's nothing. Payload capacity for humanoids is often very low, when it really should be one of their defining attributes. As an aside, BD has a long history of these gimmicky one off demos, but they've been churning them out pretty quickly lately. I think that's a good sign that the company is shortening development times and getting closer to something they can ship.
Boston Dynamics@BostonDynamics

Everyone asks if Atlas can bring them a drink, but this robot can bring you the whole fridge. Using AI-driven behaviors, Atlas is doing hard work and coordinating its whole body to manage heavy objects, balancing complex contact points with accuracy and reliability.

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