A Robot Learns to Ride To test DHAL, the researchers chose a challenge that’s both visually striking and technically demanding: teaching a Unitree Go1 quadruped robot to skateboard.

Unfortunately, [Dave Niewinski]’s kids are still too little to go on a real roller coaster. But they’re certainly big enough to be tossed around by this giant robot arm roller coaster s… ...

Made from lightweight steel and using cutting-edge technology, the robot is already capable of riding horses at up to 30 mph.

It can also hitch a ride on objects in the air, where it uses around 2 per cent of the energy required to fly under its own power.