When they explore other planets, probes enjoy a perk many of us on Earth take for granted: gravity. But when it comes to investigating smaller celestial bodies up close, rovers don't have much to keep ...

Apollo mission astronauts who visited the moon between 1969 and 1972 found a hopping motion useful for navigating its surface, where the gravity is one-sixth of Earth’s. Today, robots are playing a ...

Chinese robotics firm Pudu unveiled its latest creation, the D5, a nearly one-metre-tall (3.2 feet), four-legged robot, at ...

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 ...

Legged robot locomotion and control encompass the integration of advanced mechanical design, sensorimotor coordination and adaptive algorithms to enable agile and efficient movement over diverse ...

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 ...