Adding legs to robots that have minimal awareness of the environment around them can help the robots operate more effectively in difficult terrain, my colleagues and I found. We were inspired by ...

A new open-source bipedal robot, dubbed MEVITA, has been designed by engineers at the JSK Robotics Laboratory of the University of Tokyo, Japan. Interestingly, MEVITA aims to tackle the common issues ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. When traveling on rough and unpredictable roads, the more legs the ...

Robots these days are already far more advanced than they used to be, even just a decade ago. But for all the amazing things these machines can do now, they're still struggling with one thing: walking ...

Roboticist Dennis Hong envisions a world in which automatons—like in The Jetsons—help us out around the home. He admits that this won’t happen any time soon; for instance, robot makers face a hard ...

The first thing to notice about [Bijuo]’s cat-sized quadruped robot designs (link is in Korean, Google translation here) is how slim and sleek the legs are. That’s because unlike most legged robots, ...

Hyundai dropped a lot of jaws when it first announced its bizarre walking robo-car, the Elevate, whose four wheels on articulating legs give it the ability to roll, climb, mammal-walk and spider-walk ...

Following is a transcript of the video. Michelle Yan: This is Ford's 2-legged delivery robot. It's called Digit. Ford is working with Agility Robotics to create autonomous deliveries. Once a ...

Ford has announced that it is purchasing a new two-legged, two-armed robot produced by Agility Robotics, which the car-maker hopes will soon be walking around neighborhoods carrying parcels from the ...