WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Robots that walk like human beings are common in science fiction but not so easy to make in real life. The most famous current example, the Honda Asimo, moves smoothly but on large ...

When it comes to locomotion, robots don’t typically do more than one thing at a time. Walkers stick to walking, and rollers stick to rolling. However, this simple method of enabling a cheetah-style ...

Northwestern Engineering researchers have developed the smallest-ever remote-controlled walking robot — and it comes in the form of a tiny, adorable peekytoe crab. Just a half-millimeter wide, the ...

To a robot, it might look like something from a horror film. Parts — a battery, circuit boards and wiring —are arrayed in pieces on a white lab bench. Metallic arms and legs lay inert on nearby ...

Figure AI has developed a new humanoid robotic natural walking capability for its humanoid robots, leveraging reinforcement learning (RL) and simulation-based training. This approach enables the ...

A research team led by Mizuki Takeda, an assistant professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering in Toyohashi University of Technology has developed a robot that can assist standing up, ...

Walking, talking humanoid robots that were once firmly the domain of science fiction are on their way. In fact, a Morgan Stanley report recently predicted that 13 million human robots will be among us ...

Facebook Inc.’s artificial intelligence researchers have come up with a more advanced method of teaching walking robots to adapt to different kinds of terrain on the fly. Using the method, robots can ...