Northwestern University engineers have developed the first modular robots with athletic intelligence. They can be combined ...

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 ...

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The authors with their robot. From left to right: Alberto Comoretto, Harmannus A.H. Schomaker, Johannes T.B. Overvelde. A research team from AMOLF in Amsterdam created a soft robot that walks, hops, ...

Researchers at ETH Zürich are very good at keeping robots standing upright. Back in 2022, the school’s robotics team taught the quadrupedal ANYmal robot how to hike up mountains without falling over.

Recently, YouTuber Allen Pan gave a snake robotic legs in case it wanted to walk around. James Bruton saw that and instead of just saying “huh” and moving on, he decided to make a set that move in a ...

Robots are often limited by how they move. Wheels struggle with obstacles, legs require complex joints and control, and propellers add weight and energy demand. Each environment—land, water, confined ...