Most existing robots designed to move on the ground rely on either wheels or legs, as opposed to a combination of the two. Yet robots that can seamlessly switch between wheeled and legged locomotion ...

The physics of walking for multi-legged animals and robots is simpler than previously thought. That is the finding described by a team of roboticists, physicists and biologists in the Sept. 5 issue of ...

Have you ever wondered what would happen if you combined a dog and a car? Well, you might get something like W1, a wheeled quadruped robot that can switch between walking and rolling modes depending ...

Insect-scale legged robots have become increasingly capable in recent years but are still severely limited in terms of onboard resources for computation and power. On the other hand, simple models for ...

Researchers at the University of Michigan’s Robotics Department and the Southern University of Science and Technology in China published a research paper discussing the use of discrete-time hybrid ...

We don’t know how much time passed between the invention of the wheel and someone putting wheels on their feet, but we expect that was a great moment of discovery: combining the ability to roll off at ...

Deep Robotics, a Chinese robotics firm, recently unveiled its latest innovation in quadruped robotics, the Lynx. This impressive robot dog combines the agility of legs with the speed of wheels, ...

Perhaps it’s only a matter of time until the robots catch up with us and take over the planet. Case in point: a four-legged robodog learning how to walk on its two hind legs. Researchers from ...

The U.S. Army loves its toys and pays a lot of money for them, so it naturally gets disappointed when it can’t bring its expensive gadgets everywhere it wants to go. In the 1980s, the Army figured ...

Those were venturesome steps for some ape-like creatures long ago in Africa. Dropping out of trees, they essayed a novel means of locomotion, for reasons that elude paleoanthropologists. These ...