It seems AI robot boxing is now a thing [Video]

Of all the jobs we thought AI might steal, boxers weren’t high up on the list. But with AI now being used for everything, it was only a matter of time before someone used machine learning to train virtual robot fighters.

Final Automata streams bouts between physically simulated robots that are trained by reinforcement learning. For the moment, the focus is on boxing, but the idea is to train robots in other martial arts and make them fight to see which martial art is supreme.

Final Automata is set in the year 2050. Humans no longer fight each other. Instead they use AI-driven robots as their proxies. It was developed using Unity (see our piece on Unreal Engine vs Unity) by a team of just two people under the name of Chaos Dynamics. It’s not a …