Teaching Dinosaurs to Stand: What Eleven Weeks of Balance Work Taught Us
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Standing still sounds like the easiest thing a legged animal, or a legged robot, can learn. In our MuJoCo simulations it was the hardest thing to verify. Over eleven weeks, from late July to mid-October 2026, most of our work went into a trustworthy stance for each dinosaur-inspired body, and almost every round taught us something about the bodies, the measurements or the rewards. Here are those lessons, with the figures that made each case.