signal量子位2026-09-26
"AlphaGo" Enters the Soccer Field! After 140 Years of Self-Play, Robot Becomes "Messi Terminator"
Skild AI introduced Messinator, a humanoid robot trained in virtual soccer for 140 years through self-play. It learned dribbling, shielding, and tackling with only scoring as the reward, then transferred these skills to the real world. The robot is powered by the S1 model and Skild Brain, which also underwent omni-bodied training with about 100,000 simulated bodies for 1,000 simulated years.
- for who
- AI and robotics researchers, engineers, and enthusiasts
- why now
- Skild AI's new self-play soccer robot demonstrates skills learned without human input, a timely breakthrough.
- what changes
- Robots can now acquire complex skills through self-play without human demonstrations, shifting from hand-coded behaviors to autonomous learning
key points
- Messinator robot mastered soccer via 140 years of virtual self-play
- Only scoring rewarded, complex maneuvers emerged autonomously
- Skild AI trained on about 100,000 bodies for 1,000 simulated years
#robot#self-play#embodied intelligence#skild ai
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