Hyundai-owned Boston Dynamics is also partnering with former owner Google's DeepMind on AI, in a full-circle moment for the ...

A bipedal robot made from an artificial skeleton and biological muscle is able to walk and pivot when stimulated with electricity, allowing it to carry out finer movements than previous biohybrid ...

Stuttgart – A newborn giraffe or foal must learn to walk on its legs as fast as possible to avoid predators. Animals are born with muscle coordination networks located in their spinal cord. However, ...

While discussing humanoid robots not long ago, someone told me their main issue with the form factor is that — from an evolutionary standpoint — we’re not built particularly well. That’s not to say ...

Elon Musk took his Optimus robot for a walk around a factory floor in a video social media users have branded “spooky.” “Going for a walk with Optimus,” Mr Musk said in a post on the social media site ...

While biohybrid robots that crawl and swim have been built before with lab-grown muscle, this is the first such bipedal robot that can pivot and make sharp turns. It does this by applying electricity ...

Engineers have developed a hardy quadripedal robot dog that can go for a brisk walk — across the bottom of a pool. The robot, dubbed the Honey Badger, is the creation of a Polish robotics company ...

When Tesla first announced plans to launch a humanoid robot nicknamed “Optimus” at the Tesla AI Day in August 2021, many didn’t take it seriously. After all, the presentation started with an actual ...

Robots are slowly getting smarter, mostly thanks to advances in artificial intelligence that enable them to learn on their own rather than requiring constant human guidance. But despite being able to ...

A quadruped robot developed at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne has been taught to walk by being fed data based on the movements of a horse. Michelle Starr is CNET's science editor, and she ...

A Chinese-built humanoid robot has just walked itself into the record books, completing a 66-mile trek that tested the limits of machine endurance as much as engineering pride. The feat, carried out ...

MIT’s Biomimetics Lab recently broke the speed record for a robotic Mini Cheetah: not quite Usain Bolt speed, but probably faster than you can run. But this robot can’t see, and MIT’s researchers didn ...