Walking robots, such as quadruped robotic dogs, must be able to move safely through rough, often changing environments. Today ...

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and university partners are building a case for sending four-legged robots, modeled on the agility of dogs, to explore the Moon and Mars with minimal human oversight.

[Aaed Musa] has been building robot dogs for a long time now, so it was only natural that he would make one for the senior design project of his mechanical engineering degree. Since this meant working ...

A $2,500 pair of humanoid robot legs built from 3D-printed parts and off-the-shelf components is not going to win marathons just yet. But such relatively inexpensive hardware could enable researchers ...

China is heavily investing in robots, and the quadruped models might soon become mainstream in the region. Specialized models like one that can run as fast as Usain Bolt have been grabbing headlines, ...

Most robots are built to look like something. Engineers designing machines to navigate the real world have, for decades, reached for the same reference points: the human skeleton, the dog's ...

A robotic dog that can run, climb, and carry your gear across rugged terrain sounds like science fiction. But Chinese robotics company Unitree believes it has built exactly that with the As2 companion ...