GATO
Submarine Crew Simulation
A simulated Gato-class submarine, and a humanoid robot learning to stand watch aboard it.
GATO — Submarine Crew Simulation
Split-view footage from an early humanoid robotics training run. This selected 49-second interval, presented at 2× speed, shows the robot maintaining feet-only contact while the simulated submarine maneuvers. The robot drifts approximately 2.4 meters.
Recorded before subsequent physics corrections. Development footage, not a completed qualification.
Full five-minute watch, corrected physics: two walkers have each survived one full watch without a fall, with 75% and 87.6% of the watch in qualified standing. Our bar is 90%. Other trials of the same walkers fell. Not yet qualified.
How we judge a watch
A watch is five minutes aboard a maneuvering boat. A fall ends it. Standing only counts when nothing but the feet touch the boat; a hand may steady the robot briefly, but leaning on the hull with the head, arms or body does not count. The footage above predates these corrected-physics trials.
Sea Trial
Our simulated submarine on sea trial: running surfaced, diving, holding at depth and surfacing. Trim, planes and screws are simulated; the screws drive only when they are in the water. Presented at 4× speed.
