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

A team at Northwestern University used artificial intelligence to evolve robot body plans inside a physics simulation, then physically assembled the top-performing designs and turned them loose on ...

Researchers in China have developed a wearable robot that adds two mechanical legs behind ...

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Humanoid robots are rapidly improving in motion fluidity, making them more human-like and suitable for complex tasks.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A quadrupedal walking robot developed by the Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology (KAIST) has finished a marathon with ...

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A team of researchers at the Southern University of Science and Technology in Shenzhen, China, has built a wearable robot ...

Experienced human cyclists can perform a wide range of maneuvers and acrobatics while riding their bicycle, from balancing in ...

Deep Robotics, a Chinese robotics firm, recently unveiled its latest innovation in quadruped robotics, the Lynx. This impressive robot dog combines the agility of legs with the speed of wheels, ...

Traditional hydraulics are falling away, as electric lift systems and quasi-direct drive (QDD) motors enable smarter, more ...

A new robotic platform capable of moving at high speeds, jumping over high obstacles and maintaining balance, even on a single wheel has been developed by a team of researchers from the Robotics and ...