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The Robot Report · November 10, 2026 · On the brief until November 24, 2026

Boston Dynamics adds wheels to Atlas humanoid to test whole-body control

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Adapting whole-body stability to unmodeled terrain disturbances

Boston Dynamics added scooter wheels to the Atlas humanoid ankle actuators using a single custom adapter. The team combined classical model-based control with whole-body reinforcement learning to navigate flat surfaces and uneven ground. The experiment shows that merging classical stabilization with learned policies improves agility on physical hardware.

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Students can evaluate how classical control and reinforcement learning divide tasks between baseline stability and reactive adaptation.

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