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Well, computer scientists from the University of British Columbia and National University of Singapore just did that with a bipedal computer model (read: essentially a pair of animated legs) -- only instead of a cute cartoon rabbit, the teacher is a deep reinforcement learning artificial intelligence algorithm. Google's DeepMind, for example, has used reinforcement learning to teach an AI to play classic video games by working out how to achieve high scores. It's like watching your kid grow up -- except that, you know, in this case, your kid is a pair of disembodied AI legs powered by Skynet! A paper describing the work, titled "DeepLoco: Dynamic Locomotion Skills Using Hierarchical Deep Reinforcement Learning" was published in the journal Transactions on Graphics.