Watch this four legged robot scramble over tricky terrain just by using its camera

Recommendable! This seems to be very promising research by Carnegie Mellon University and UC Berkeley! Perhaps a breakthrough! I am looking forward to reading the research paper!

"... Other attempts to use cues from cameras to guide robot movement have been limited to flat terrain, but they managed to get their robot to walk up stairs, climb on stones, and hop over gaps. ..."

Watch this robot dog scramble over tricky terrain just by using its camera | MIT Technology Review Unlike most existing robots, which rely heavily on internal maps to get around, this robot uses vision and reinforcement learning.

Legged Locomotion in Challenging Terrains using Egocentric Vision (open access)