Never thought I’d get to do this but this was my masters research! Simulations are inherently limited and I just got tired of robotic research being done only in simulations. So I built a novel soft robot (notoriously difficult to control) and got it to learn by playing!!

Here is an informal talk I gave on my work. Let me know if you want the thesis

https://www.youtube.com/live/ZXlQ3ppHi-E?si=MKcRqoxmEra7Zrt5