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IIRC the most advanced robots today, those by Boston Dynamics, do not use any deep- or machine learning. Or at least they did not when I'd last read about them. Tech simply did not exist when they were developed. So this is a good stake in the ground in a relatively nascent (but "difficult" field). Hopefully this will result in more innovation, although this is _fundamentally_ difficult as well because what the neural models will do given out of domain inputs is anyone's guess, and that can end pretty badly in a control system. But this still could be helpful for augmenting traditional control systems, which tend to be relativel primitive, and tend to make a lot of assumptions, such as linearity.