Adding legs to robots that have minimal awareness of the environment around them can help the robots operate more effectively in difficult terrain, my colleagues and I found. We were inspired by ...

Robots these days are equipped with locomotion systems to overcome all types of terrain, but tend to favor one type of environment in particular. Scientists at Norway's University of Oslo have instead ...

Beware! Future robot overlords could have dual-purpose appendages. Well, that might be an exaggeration, but this leg-wheel hybrid mobile robot is definitely a front-runner to star in my recurring ...

There’s an old saying about standing on the shoulders of giants, but how about doing so with an open source leg? Well, your robots might do so at least, thanks to OpenLeg, a new open source project ...

A team of scientists has constructed a robot leg that, like its natural model, is very energy efficient. BirdBot benefits from a foot-leg coupling through a network of muscles and tendons that extends ...

ROCHESTER HILLS, Mich.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Starting today, students, customers, integrators and industry partners interested in diving deeper into the many functions of FANUC robots and collaborative ...

Researchers in China have developed a wearable robot that adds two mechanical legs behind a human, helping carry heavy loads while reducing the energy required to walk. The system effectively creates ...