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Why Legged Robots Still Trip Over Stairs
In this episode, Lucas and Luna dig into the surprisingly hard problem of getting legged robots to handle stairs reliably. They examine Boston Dynamics' latest Atlas demo from April 2026, which still fails on spiral staircases, and contrast it with ETH Zurich's ANYmal robot, which uses a learned terrain-adaptation system called 'blind stair walking' to handle uneven steps without vision. The hosts break down why stair negotiation is a control problem, not a hardware one, and how the robotics industry is finally shifting from brute-force tuning to simulation-based…
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