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 ...

More accurately, if the robot is immobilized by a broken leg, it only takes a few seconds for it to learn how to walk again, using a new gait that minimizes the impact of the broken leg.

MEVITA's design makes it both sturdy and easy to build by using a minimal number of parts that can all be found and bought ...

Published today in Nature, “ Robots that can adapt like animals,” looks at a robot that can relearn how to walk after losing multiple limbs.

So Pan decided to help them out, in a way, by building legs that snakes can use. Watch the video above to see the test run and other animal-friendly stories.

CMU engineers have built a robot able to transition from walking on six legs to five so as to use one of its front legs as a gripper arm.

In response, the man explains that the animals only have "vestigial legs" that can no longer be used for walking. Scientists believe snakes used to wander the Earth on legs about 150 million years ...

Video Think of it as one giant (biologically accurate) step for robot-kind. Scientists at the University of Arizona yesterday published research on the development of a two-legged robot designed ...

The Shanghai Evolution Shift company has just pulled off one of the most impressive robotic projects we’ve ever seen – making a building walk using 198 robotic legs. We’ve all see… ...

A team of researchers has come up with a system that allows anyone to make a walking robot using only a 3-D printer and an off-the-shelf motor.

The technology developed to keep two-legged robots upright could show scientists how to make better, stronger, more intuitive artificial limbs for people.

MIT scientists build stealthy robot 'cheetah' Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have developed a battery-powered robot bounds across surfaces at up to 10 miles per hour.