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Embodied AI 101

Episode 26: SoftMimic: Teaching Humanoids to Move Softly

07 Nov 2025

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## The Problem with Rigid Controllers Most robots trained to imitate human motions have a hidden flaw: they’re **too stiff**. When an imitation-trained humanoid encounters unexpected contact – say it brushes against a table, misjudges an object’s position, or bumps into a person – it treats that deviation as an error and tries to correct it _aggressively_. The result is often _large, uncontrolled forces_ against the obstacle, making the robot’s behavior brittle and potentially dangerous. In ...

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