The researchers have designed robot legs that run on fewer motors than comparable machines and could, theoretically, scale to large size. Their energy-efficient robotic model, called BirdBot ...

It’s designed to be strong and easy to build, using a minimal number of parts that are all available online, which makes ...

Robots these days are equipped with locomotion systems to overcome all types of terrain, but tend to favor one type of environment in particular. Scientists at Norway's University of Oslo have ...

The research team's two-legged robot, an innovative bipedal design, builds on the legacy of biohybrid robots that take advantage of muscles.

2025 is the year of the exoskeletons. They have been around for a while, and not just in sci-fi novels and movies. I tried Enhanced Robotics’ Sportsmate 5 back in 2022, and even though it was an ...

The “spider bots” evolved from the leg joints up. The critical design challenge was to build an efficient robotic joint that allows fluid motion, and to reduce the number of motors necessary ...

Yet, here is Kriegman wielding a puny laptop by comparison, typing in the words "Design a Robot that can walk" that results in a blueprint for a functioning prototype in a bewildering 26 seconds.

There’s a heel design at the tip of the robot legs that stabilizes the robot when it’s standing still, and makes it look like it’s wearing tiny stilettos. Caltech/Science Robotics ...

After honing this design—which the team has made open-source online—the krill leg mechanisms eventually could find their way onto underwater robots for all sorts of uses, including exploration ...

If we let robots design themselves in simulations, they can come up with totally novel forms and materials—and some can reproduce to form lightly mutated offspring.