Robots can walk, run, lie down, and act like humans, but none has attempted to jump massive heights before apart from small leaps. Now, there is a team that developed the "mechanical jumper," and it ...

In 1921, Czech playwright Karel Čapek and his brother Josef invented the word “robot” in a sci-fi play called R.U.R. (short for Rossum’s Universal Robots). As Even Ackerman in IEEE Spectrum points out ...