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// 72d agoVIDEO
KAIST Humanoid V0.7 moonwalks in demo
A Reddit post spotlighted a KAIST humanoid clip showing a moonwalk move, sourced from YouTube. The demo aligns with KAIST HuboLab’s 2025 announcement of its next-gen humanoid lower-body platform, which the team says reaches 3.25 m/s and uses in-house hardware plus a sim-to-real RL controller.
// ANALYSIS
The moonwalk is marketing candy, but the real story is KAIST proving a locally built humanoid stack with credible locomotion benchmarks.
- –KAIST frames this as hardware and algorithmic independence, with motors, reducers, drivers, and controller developed in-house.
- –Reported mobility numbers (speed and obstacle clearance) matter more than dance moves for industrial deployment potential.
- –If upper-body integration lands as planned, this shifts from viral demo content toward a serious physical-AI platform narrative.
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kaist-humanoidroboticsresearch
DISCOVERED
72d ago
2026-03-17
PUBLISHED
72d ago
2026-03-17
RELEVANCE
7/ 10
AUTHOR
GraceToSentience