Think of actuators as the robot’s muscles —the technology that enables humanoids to move. Actuators come in three types: ...

UC Berkeley’s landmark Sather Gate has welcomed walkers of all kinds for more than a century, from angry protesters to students hurrying to class. Last month, though, an entirely new pedestrian passed ...

We’ve recently seen humanoid robots that can cartwheel, kung-fu kick, and front flip, but such attention-grabbing stunts aren’t the goal of California-based Figure AI. Instead, its team of roboticists ...

Best battles between Pacman & Robot Monster Pacmans (Two-Legged, Spiky Drill, Spider-Legged, Spinning Blade, One-Eyed Walking ...

DrEureka, a new open-source software package that anyone can play with, is used to train robots to perform real-world tasks using Large Language Models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT 4. It's a "sim-to-reality ...

A group of researchers affiliated with Northwestern University, MIT, and the University of Vermont have given a simple request to a custom AI. The AI system that was prompted is trained on robot ...

Robots might need to become more boring to be useful. We’ve all seen videos over the past few years demonstrating how agile humanoid robots have become, running and jumping with ease. We’re no longer ...

Like something out of an early Transformers movie, researchers at Caltech have just demonstrated how a humanoid and a drone can team up to accomplish multiple forms of movement. The experiment opens ...

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A robot with bird-like legs that can walk, hop, leap and jump for take-off into flight has been designed in Switzerland in an engineering breakthrough that could enable aircraft to operate in ...

This robot can walk, without electronics, and only with the addition of a cartridge of compressed gas, right off the 3D-printer. Imagine a robot that can walk, without electronics, and only with the ...

DAEJEON, South Korea, Dec 23 (Reuters) - South Korean researchers have developed a lightweight wearable robot that can walk up to paraplegic users and lock itself onto them, enabling them to walk, ...