The robot's agility makes it valuable in standoffs and hazardous incidents, but civil liberties groups warn that ...

Each leg can bend in multiple ways, lift, and move independently of the others to ensure that stability is maintained ...

What happens when the military builds a robot that can walk across beaches, dunes, and shifting coastlines without sinking, ...

Meet ANYmal, a four-legged dog-like robot designed by researchers at ETH Zürich in Switzerland, in hopes of using such robots for search-and-rescue on building sites or disaster areas, among other ...

Have you ever wondered what would happen if you combined a dog and a car? Well, you might get something like W1, a wheeled quadruped robot that can switch between walking and rolling modes depending ...

The ratio of guide dogs to blind people in China is roughly one service pooch for every 40,000 people. Researchers are currently developing a six-legged, AI-enhanced robodog to close the gap and ...

In Egypt Pacman and Ms. Pacman are attacked by Tank Robot and Two-Legged Chainsaw Robot Monsters. The two Robot Monsters take Ms. Pacman. Pacman finds friendly Robot Pacman in a hidden place; together ...

The Legged Exploration of the Aristarchus Plateau (LEAP) mission is a concept study funded by the European Space Agency (ESA) to design a robot to explore some of the most challenging lunar terrains.

When it comes to the 'evolution' of mobile robots, it may be a long time before legged robots are able to safely interact in the real world, according to a new study. When it comes to the evolution of ...

Robots these days are equipped with locomotion systems to overcome all types of terrain, but tend to favor one type of environment in particular. Scientists at Norway's University of Oslo have instead ...

Marta Bernardino and Sebastião Mendonça invented Trovador, a six-legged, A.I.-powered robot that can plant trees in ...

Using an alloy that melts at 122 degrees, a special joint module can reform a robot's broken leg. Unlike the smooth geometric patterns of this ferrofluid, the melted alloy has much more in common with ...