[James Bruton] is on a quest to explore all the weird and wonderful methods of robot locomotion, and in his latest project created an omnidirectional walker that can move in any direction ...

Springtails, small bugs often found crawling through leaf litter and garden soil, are expert jumpers. Inspired by these hopping hexapods, roboticists at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of ...

Harvard researchers have developed a small, agile robot capable of walking and jumping, inspired by hopping hexapods like ...

A robotics firm in China claims a robot has performed the world's first humanoid robot front flip, which is significantly more difficult than a backflip.

Here's what you need to know this week about artificial intelligence in the Bay Area: a humanoid robot walked around Russian Hill, Fazeshift is making accounting agents, Chegg sues Google over search ...

The simplicity of the springtail’s jumping mechanism intrigued the researchers. “Its furcula consists of just two or three connected parts, and that simplicity is what made me want to explore it for ...

When it comes to traipsing through mud and muck, robots are no match for a moose. “Robots are just starting to be able to work on non-flat grounds, like construction sites or stairs, but if we ...

Aibo, the cute-looking robot puppy developed by Sony, was designed to be a household companion. The robot can already emulate many of the movements and behaviors of real dogs, such as walking on four ...

For the first time in history, robots will compete in a half marathon in Daxing District, Beijing, China in April.