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 ...

The Robotics and AI Institute (RAI) has just released a video of its Roadrunner robot. Although it lacks a torso, the bipedal bot more than makes up for it by rolling, stomping, stair-climbing, and ...

Even though biped robots get better and better all the time, many don't exactly have truly natural leg movements. One reason why comes down to the fact that robot legs, with the exception of a few ...

November 1978: A domestic robot, developed by Quasar industries in America, hoovering the house. (Photo by Alan Band/Keystone/Getty Images) It’s the weekend of the world-famous CES tradeshow, and ...

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 ...

PLANO, Texas - New technology is allowing kids who have never been able to walk before the opportunity to take steps of their own. "Dude! Look at you, you're walking," said Kristen Gibson. Gibson's ...

NASA has also been working on autonomous rovers that can explore and excavate on the Moon with minimal human direction. And ...

Robots don’t stroll, at least not in science fiction movies. They more often than not lumber or, in the case of C-3PO, shuffle. But thanks to scientists at the University of Arizona, you might one day ...