Show HN: Lego Meets AI: BricksRL to train your own Lego robot

We're excited to share that our paper on BricksRL, a library of RL algorithms that can be trained and deployed on affordable, custom LEGO robots, has been accepted at NeurIPS 2024 as a spotlight paper!

As AI and machine learning continue to make waves, we believe it's essential to make reliable and affordable education tools available to the community. Not everyone has access to hundreds of GPUs, and understanding how ML works in practice can be challenging.

That's why we've been working on BricksRL, a collaboration between Universitat Pompeu Fabra and PyTorch. Our goal is to provide a fun and engaging way for people to learn about AI, ML, robotics, and PyTorch, while maintaining high standards of correctness and robustness.

BricksRL is based on Pybricks and can be deployed on many different LEGO hubs. We hope it will empower labs worldwide to prototype ideas affordably without requiring expensive robots.

The library is open-sourced under an MIT license on GitHub: https://github.com/BricksRL/bricksrl/

Read our paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.17490

Watch the robots in action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_Vb30ZSatk&t=10s

We're working on some exciting follow-up projects, so stay tuned!

See you in Vancouver