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Cristiano Ronaldo’s goal celebration is quite iconic. He would jump into the air before exclaiming “siuu!” when he landed. It was so famous that it became a favorite among young fans and other professional soccer players who idolized him. Now, robots can also do the “siuu!” move with the help of NVIDIA and Carnegie Mellon University technology.
The joint research Aligning Simulation and Real Physics (ASAP) developed by both parties was used to train robots to perform Cristiano Ronaldo’s goal celebration, Kobe Bryant’s throw, and LeBron James’s movement when entering the court.
This was done with two-stage training. The first stage was ASAP, which taught the robot in a virtual world to follow the movements of these three famous athletes using video. After the action was successfully performed in the simulated world, the robot was then asked to perform the same action in the real world in the second stage.
Robotics researchers have long recognized that movements in a virtual world cannot necessarily be replicated in the real world due to differences in physics parameters and body movements in the real world. ASAP allows robots to learn from real-world mistakes to produce the same movements as in the virtual world.
With ASAP, robots in the future can learn to operate in the real world without undergoing a time-consuming training process. They can solve mobility problems on their own without the need for human intervention.