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Extreme Parkour

From github.com/chengxuxin/extreme-parkour (opens in a new tab)

  • Humanoids and robot learning
  • Framework
  • CC-BY-NC-4.0

Training and playback code for a legged-robot policy that learns extreme parkour skills, built on Isaac Gym and the legged_gym framework.

  • Non-commercial. The code license (CC-BY-NC-4.0) does not allow commercial use.
  • Closed core. It needs closed parts: NVIDIA Isaac Gym.
  • Stale. No commit in 12 months: the newest is from 10 Nov 2023.
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Facts

GitHub stars
1,190read on 6 Nov 2026
Last update
10 Nov 2023Newest commit on main
Maintenance
Staleno commit in 12 months
Difficulty
Advanced
Hardware it needs, as the project states it
Isaac Gym binaries from NVIDIA are also required.

Checked on GitHub on 6 Nov 2026.

Licenses

Code
CC-BY-NC-4.0 (opens in a new tab)

Read by Robotheca from LICENSE (opens in a new tab) (CC-BY-NC-4.0) at commit d2ffe27 (opens in a new tab), on 4 Nov 2026.

Commercial use
No

The code license does not allow commercial use.

One part it needs is closed

  • Needs NVIDIA Isaac Gym: Training needs the Isaac Gym binaries, a closed NVIDIA download (README).

Overview

What it does: Robotheca's summary

  • Trains a base locomotion policy, then a distillation policy that uses a camera or scandots for perception.
  • Provides scripts to play trained policies in the simulator or a web viewer, including on headless machines.
  • Exports trained models in traced form for deployment on a robot.
  • Logs runs with wandb, and supports resuming training from a checkpoint.

Written by Robotheca from the project's README (opens in a new tab) at commit d2ffe27, not by its creator.

The README

Read the README on GitHub (opens in a new tab)

Files and versions

Facts read at commit d2ffe27

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Use it

How to install it, in the creator's words: The project's website (opens in a new tab)

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