Robot Parkour

Closed weights Shanghai Qi Zhi institute,Stanford University,Carnegie Mellon University (CMU),Tsinghua University 500K parameters September 2023

No estimate

No hardware requirements for this model

The weights for this model have not been published, so it cannot be downloaded or run on your own hardware at any size. It is reachable only through its provider, and no graphics card changes that.

On record

Full specification

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Origin

Who built this model, where, and when it was published.

Organisation
Shanghai Qi Zhi institute,Stanford University,Carnegie Mellon University (CMU),Tsinghua University
Organisation type
Academia,Academia,Academia
Country
China, United States of America
Published
12 September 2023
Authors
Ziwen Zhuang, Zipeng Fu, Jianren Wang, Christopher Atkeson, Soeren Schwertfeger, Chelsea Finn, Hang Zhao

What it does

The problem areas the model was built for. A model can carry several of each.

Domain
Robotics
Task
Animal (human/non-human) imitation

Size

How large the model is and how much data it was trained on. Parameters are the figure that decides whether it fits on a given graphics card.

Parameters
500K

Parkour policy details on page 8, table 11.

Training data
tokens

The training run

What it physically took to train: which chips, how many, for how long, and what that drew from the wall.

Training hardware
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090

Availability

Whether you can obtain the model and run it on your own hardware, which is what decides if any of the graphics-card figures on this page apply.

Weights
Closed — provider access only
Model access
Unreleased
Training code
Open source

MIT license for training and inference code: https://github.com/ZiwenZhuang/parkour

How it is classified

Labels the source dataset applies when tracking notable models, and how confident it is in the entry.

Why it is tracked
SOTA improvement

I do not see any standard benchmarks that they are claiming SOTA on

Record confidence
Confident
Citations
274

Sources

Where this record came from and when it was last checked.

Reference
Robot Parkour Learning
Last updated
25 May 2026

What the numbers mean

Where it came from

Robot Parkour was published by Shanghai Qi Zhi institute,Stanford University,Carnegie Mellon University (CMU),Tsinghua University, in China, in September 2023. academia,Academia,Academia is the category the publisher falls under.

It works in Robotics, and is recorded as doing animal (human/non-human) imitation.

Its weights were never published, so it can only be reached through its provider. No graphics card changes that.

How it was trained

The reason it appears in this catalogue at all is sOTA improvement.

Answers

Robot Parkour — common questions

01

Is Robot Parkour open source?

No. Robot Parkour has not had its weights published, so it exists only as a service controlled by its owner.

02

How many parameters does Robot Parkour have?

Robot Parkour has 500K parameters. Parkour policy details on page 8, table 11. That figure is the total, and it is what decides how much memory the model needs — roughly half a gigabyte per billion at the compression most people use.

03

Who created Robot Parkour?

Robot Parkour was published by Shanghai Qi Zhi institute,Stanford University,Carnegie Mellon University (CMU),Tsinghua University, based in China, categorised as academia,Academia,Academia.

04

When was Robot Parkour released?

Robot Parkour was published in September 2023. Capability per parameter has improved considerably since, so a newer model of the same size is often the better use of the same hardware.

05

What is Robot Parkour used for?

Robot Parkour works in Robotics, and is recorded as handling animal (human/non-human) imitation. Models frequently carry more than one of each, and the tags describe purpose rather than capability limits.

06

What GPU do I need to run Robot Parkour?

None. Robot Parkour is a closed model — its weights were never published, so it cannot be downloaded or run on your own hardware at any price. It is reachable only through its provider.

Source

Original publication

Record last updated 25 May 2026

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