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 ...

Engineers at Northwestern University have created a new kind of robot that can adapt, recover from damage, and keep moving even after being broken apart. The machines, called “legged metamachines,” ...

Scientists have achieved a breakthrough in robotics by designing the first robotic leg equipped with “artificial muscles,” allowing the machine to move more like a human than previously possible. The ...

Recently, a research group from Robotics Institute of Beihang University, China has developed a novel multifunctional hexapod robot with leg–arm integration which is named ALLOMAN (Arm-Leg Locomotion ...

The machines are built from autonomous modules that can be snapped together in a variety of forms ...

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 ...

By late 2009, testing was underway on the PowerFoot BiOM, the first lower-leg system to use robotics to replace muscle and tendon function. Using onboard microprocessors and a three-cell ion lithium ...

A few facts about ostriches: It took just a few million years for terrestrial birds to refine their bipedal locomotor technique. Having mastered the ability to walk and run on two rear limbs, these ...