The proliferation of robots like Boston Dynamics’ Spot has showcased the versatility of quadrupeds. These systems have thrived at walking up stairs, traversing small obstacles, and navigating ...

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Unlike other entries in the Cybathlon discipline for assistive robots, all of which are attached to a wheelchair, ALMA moves autonomously on its own four legs, controlled by paraplegic pilot Sammy ...

Four-legged creatures, both living and robotic, have historically had a hard time climbing ladders - until now. Researchers at Tokyo Metropolitan University have created a quadruped robot capable ...

In initial experiments, the researchers' model was found to perform very well, allowing a four-legged robot to effectively ...

Over the past decades, roboticists worldwide have been trying to effectively reproduce these movements in quadrupedal (i.e., ...

The proliferation of robots like Boston Dynamics’ Spot has showcased the versatility of quadrupeds. These systems have thrived at walking up stairs, traversing small obstacles, and navigating uneven ...

Walkers like the Strandbeest are favorites due in part to their smooth design and fluid motion, but [Leandro] is going a slightly different way with Octo, an octopodal platform for exploring ...

The world of four-legged robotic dogs just got a little bigger. Chinese robot ics company Unitree debuted its newest robot, the A1, at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) earlier in 2020.

For many of us, the first robot we saw rolling on powered wheels at the end of actively articulated legs was when footage of the Boston Dynamics ‘Handle’ project surfaced a few years ago.