China's LimX Dynamics launched a versatile bipedal robot last year with modular foot ends to walk or roll around as needed. Now the company has demonstrated its agility chops by having the squat bot ...

While many bipedal (i.e., two-legged) robots are humanoids, meaning that their body resembles that of humans, others draw inspiration from other animals that walk on two legs, such as ostriches ...

In some situations, humanoid robots can quickly lose their footing and fall. A new framework is designed to help them get up ...

Research on bipedal robots has amassed over the years, and as the saying goes, if these Imagineers saw further it was by standing on the shoulders of larger robotic platforms. However, the Project ...

Texas-based robot maker Apptronik and supply chain solutions specialist Jabil partner to test the Apollo humanoid robot on the assembly lines of itself ...

Insilico Medicine, a clinical-stage biotechnology company pioneering generative AI for drug discovery and development, ...

Now, a paper published in the American Journal of Primatology provides new insights into how and when bipedal locomotion appeared during human evolution. Professor Josep M. Potau, from the Human ...

[Ye Guan] has always been fascinated by walking robots — so he decided to build his own. It’s called Project Sentinel, and he’s loosely based the design off of the Sentinel Walker from ...

Small bipedal steps for apes, and as it would turn out, a giant leap for mankind. Anthropologists and evolutionary biologists are now agreed that upright posture and two-legged walking ...

How did humans evolve into the big-brained, bipedal ape that we are today? This article examines the fossil evidence of our 6 million year evolution. Darwin's great insight, and the unifying ...