The quadrupedal machine finished the course in a solid four hours, 19 minutes and 52 seconds—and on just one battery charge ...

Scientists reveal findings from the first robot to ever run a marathon - Pioneering run could lead to new kinds of robots for more functional purposes, scientists behind it say ...

Then its hind limbs snap — and the tiny machine launches itself across the ground. The 11-centimeter-long robot stores energy ...

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MIT researchers have developed a robotic laboratory that can independently assemble and align optics experiments. In a ...

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Researchers have created the smallest walking robot yet. Its mission: to be tiny enough to interact with waves of visible light and still move independently, so that it can maneuver to specific ...

Scientists have created a robot that can learn tasks like cleaning a washbasin just by watching humans. A special sponge with sensors is used to show the robot how to clean. Using an advanced machine ...

Meet ANYmal, a four-legged dog-like robot designed by researchers at ETH Zürich in Switzerland, in hopes of using such robots for search-and-rescue on building sites or disaster areas, among other ...

Robots like Atlas, Spot, and Stretch have amazed people with natural, life-like agility and body balance. What they were lacking, though, was a way to quickly connect this natural movement to ...

Salto the robot is acting a little squirrelly. The jumping bot can take a flying leap and land on a narrow pipe ­­­— just like a squirrel soaring from branch to branch. It’s the first time scientists ...