In a test of 60 jumps, the robot made a perfectly controlled landing 52 times, sat back on its "heel" five times, and fell over just three. Controlling the landing has hugely boosted Salto's jumping ...

The red-eyed humanoid robots in the Terminator movies don't look half as scary as PETMAN, the headfree machines that can run on treadmills now being built for the U.S. Army. Instead of turning a laser ...

Typical jumping behavior of a spherical shell obtained from simulation: it jumps from the inverted configuration back to its original shape. Inspired by a simple children's toy, a jumping popper toy, ...

Recent advancements in robotics have increasingly drawn on biological principles to develop machines capable of dynamic, agile motion. One area of significant progress is the design of jumping robots ...

Some might have taken the expression "keep Austin weird" a bit too literally, as the Texas capital turned tech hub is now home to its latest transplants: Humanoid robots. Several Austinites have ...