Zero to Autonomy in Real-Time: Online Adaptation of Dynamics in Unstructured Environments Autonomous robots must go from zero prior knowledge to safe control within seconds to operate in unstructured environments. Abrupt terrain changes, such as a sudden transition to ice, create dynamics ...

We trained our robots to drift on ice ❄️
Our new paper shows how to learn dynamics from streaming odometry in seconds.

Function encoders + Kalman-like updates = real-time, terrain-aware autonomy 🏎️

📄 arxiv.org/abs/2509.12516
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