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Then, we’ll test its robustness using the CartPole-v1 and PixelCopter environments.</p> <p data-svelte-h="svelte-liqaak">You’ll then be able to iterate and improve this implementation for more advanced environments.</p> <figure class="image table text-center m-0 w-full" data-svelte-h="svelte-1dadvfq"><img src="https://huggingface.co/datasets/huggingface-deep-rl-course/course-images/resolve/main/en/unit6/envs.gif" alt="Environments"></figure> <p data-svelte-h="svelte-4b3xjd">Let’s get started!</p> <a class="!text-gray-400 !no-underline text-sm flex items-center not-prose mt-4" href="https://github.com/huggingface/deep-rl-class/blob/main/units/en/unit4/introduction.mdx" target="_blank"><svg class="mr-1" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" aria-hidden="true" fill="currentColor" focusable="false" role="img" width="1em" height="1em" preserveAspectRatio="xMidYMid meet" viewBox="0 0 32 32"><path d="M31,16l-7,7l-1.41-1.41L28.17,16l-5.58-5.59L24,9l7,7z"></path><path d="M1,16l7-7l1.41,1.41L3.83,16l5.58,5.59L8,23l-7-7z"></path><path d="M12.419,25.484L17.639,6.552l1.932,0.518L14.351,26.002z"></path></svg> <span data-svelte-h="svelte-zjs2n5"><span class="underline">Update</span> on GitHub</span></a>  <p></p> 
			
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