Move over remote control cars and helicopters: the world of dad toys needs to make room for the world's first six-legged running robot. OutRunner has created a self balancing robot that can run up to ...

Steadier gait Swiss robotics researchers have made a small step towards the holy grail of getting robots to run like humans. Harold Roberto Martinez Salazar and Juan Pablo Carbajal of the University ...

Fast running robots are fun, fueling the imagination with all manner of military or search-and-rescue scenarios. This may be the reason why so many different groups from Boston Dynamics to MIT have ...

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 ...

While we've seen a number of quadruped "robotic dogs" lately, they all require control motors to maintain their running gait. An experimental new one, however, keeps running on its own once it's been ...

Inventors and researchers have been developing robots for almost 70 years. To date, all the machines they have built – whether for factories or elsewhere – have had one thing in common: they are ...

It has been a good long while since I had a nice rant about the rise of robot overlords, so I think I’m entitled to ask this question again: why do scientists keep doing this? What do they have ...

A running robot has been able to reach some impressive speeds - but can run even faster when it wears a pair of trainers! The robot - called STAR1 - is built to look like humans and can reach speeds ...

The Chinese robot dog Black Panther II has unofficially set a running record in the 100-meter sprint. Lightweight construction and AI made it possible. The Black Panther II robot dog from Chinese ...