The 90-minute virtual workshop, titled “Train a Balance Bot with Reinforcement Learning”, will take place on Thursday, 13 August 2026 at 10am CDT. The webinar is accompanied by a six-part educational video series covering reinforcement learning for robotics, from simulation through to hardware deployment. “Almost every major robotics lab has turned to reinforcement learning to build robust, AI-powered control and decision-making for their robots, from quadrupeds to bipeds,” said Hymel. Alongside the webinar, DigiKey and Hymel have launched a six-part YouTube series designed to provide a more detailed introduction to robotics and reinforcement learning. The series follows the complete development process, including simulation, reinforcement learning and deployment to real hardware.