Title: I&#x27;m eager to find references on modern approaches to robotic control.<p>The coordinated robots from Boston Dynamics (acquired by Google) impress the most, with their ability to react quickly to perturbation and move competently over difficult terrain.<p>I assume they are not solving inverse kinematics problems continuously, and also assume that much of their progress was made before the deep learning revolution, so maybe they don&#x27;t even use neural networks either.<p>So are they using any reinforcement learning?  I have no idea so would appreciate any quick summaries or pointers to relevant information.<p>What other companies are working in robotics at the same level as Boston Dynamics?<p>Approaches to robot perception, path planning (e.g. A*), and environmental mapping (e.g. SLAM) are also very interesting, but not the topics I&#x27;m interested in for this question.
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