Comment by neurologic

The winning entry used slow and handcrafted controllers, which is why the videos are sped up. A few months ago, http://rll.berkeley.edu/deeplearningrobotics/ was announced. Notice that in the videos here the robot's movement is very fast and humanlike (real time, as opposed to 15x of the KAIST video). This technique will be used in all of the robotics challenges in a year or two, which will look like a discontinuous improvement in robotics performance.