Chinese humanoid robots broke marks set by humans, including beating Usain Bolt's 100-meter sprint world record, on the opening day of the Olympics-like World Humanoid Robot Games.

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 a ...

Much like the earworm “The Song That Doesn’t End” from Shari Lewis’ Lamb Chops’ Play-Along, a new soft robot does not ...

Researchers from North Carolina State University have created teardrop-shaped soft robots that leap upward or forward when ...

Researchers have developed a learning-based approach that enables four-legged robots to pass through narrow ...

A soft jumping robot that twists itself tight under an infrared lamp, snaps its tail on the ground, and resets in mid-air to ...

This is possible because the robots are composed of a liquid crystal elastomer tear-shaped ribbon that features a thin ...

Getting a robot to run 100m faster than Usain Bolt is impressive. But how about a humanoid that can make you a cup of tea in your own kitchen?

Commentary: Robots pose an inherent risk to humans. It's time to take safety more seriously.

Locomotion makes things move, and certain forms of locomotion make them move better than others. Those more effective types of locomotion change depending on the environment, which is even more true ...

Springtails, small bugs often found crawling through leaf litter and garden soil, are expert jumpers. Inspired by these hopping hexapods, roboticists in the Harvard John A. Paulson School of ...