Pre-Programmed (Choreographed) Motion

A fixed motion sequence designed in advance and replayed by the robot, not decided on the spot.

Pre-programmed motion means engineers design a sequence of movements ahead of time — a dance, a backflip, a martial-arts routine — and the robot replays or tracks that fixed script. Today these are commonly built with motion capture plus reinforcement learning to train a tracking policy, with balance and force output handled by the controller in real time, which is not technically trivial. But what to do and when is fixed in advance, and doesn't depend on the robot understanding its surroundings. This differs from full autonomy, which requires the robot to decide its next move based on what it actually perceives. When watching a robot dance or box, it's worth separating “this is strong motor control” from “this robot can autonomously complete a task.”

ExampleBoston Dynamics' 2020 dance video “Do You Love Me” and the humanoid group dances on CCTV's Spring Festival Gala, China's most-watched TV broadcast, are both examples of pre-choreographed motion.

Also called

Choreographed Motion, Scripted Motion

Related

Fully Autonomous · Motion Tracking · Motion Capture · Demo (Demonstration Video) · Commercial Robot Performances · Teleoperated Demo

Sources

Atlas (robot) - Wikipedia
Boston Dynamics - Wikipedia