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Robotic Systems Lab (RSL)

Switzerland

Hutter co-founded ANYbotics, the spin-off commercializing ANYmal; RSL trains its policies via massively parallel simulation running thousands of simulated ANYmal robots on a single workstation.

Updated 2026-07-10 · Last verified 2026-07-10

AffiliationETH Zurich
CountryCH
TypeAcademic
Research areaslegged robots, reinforcement learning, locomotion, mobile manipulation
Flagship contributionTaught the ANYmal quadruped to autonomously navigate parkour-style obstacles and rubble through reinforcement learning, published in Science Robotics in March 2024.
Key peopleMarco Hutter (Head of Lab, Director ETH Centre for Robotics, cofondateur d'ANYbotics), Cesar Cadena (Senior Scientist)
Open outputsOrganisation GitHub leggedrobotics (300+ dépôts), notamment rsl_rl (framework RL), elevation_mapping_cupy (cartographie GPU) et open3d_slam (SLAM point-cloud).
CityZurich

Sources : ETH Zurich RSL (2026-07)Science Robotics (2024-03)ETH Zurich News (2024-03-13)

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