Animals inspired robots consistently filament outperform their organic inspirations despite often having better individual components. Animal Inspired Movement and Robotics Lab, CU Boulder ...

Sony has shown off its new surgical robot doing some super-precise work sewing up a tiny slit in a corn kernel. It's the first machine of its kind that auto-switches between its different tools, and ...

The pogo-stick-like bot’s nickname stands for Saltatorial Agile Locomotion on Terrain Obstacles, for its skill borrowed from ...

Most animals run fairly quickly and faster than most humans. But can a robot run faster than most living beings?

Cockroach energy. The question of “who can run better, animals or robots?” is complicated because running itself is complicated. In previous research, Jayaram and his colleagues at Harvard University ...

Tomboy’s Jennie the robot companion dog is designed to comfort people. Jennie’s realistic movements set it apart from other ...

Many animals use flapping as a means of propulsion, and robots equipped with flappers can also propel themselves efficiently. But the flappers of the animal kingdom—in this case fish and insects ...

Why can't robots outrun animals? Date: April 26, 2024 Source: Simon Fraser University Summary: Robotics engineers have worked for decades and invested many millions of research dollars in attempts ...

Scientists from City St George’s, University of London created a terrifyingly realistic android head to determine whether chimpanzees can “catch” yawns from robots. Remarkably, it turns out they can, ...

Even the best batteries fall far short of animal metabolism for energy storage. Fueling robots with ‘food’ could narrow the gap.

Robots have yet to catch up to animals “The way things turned out is that, with only minor exceptions, the engineering subsystems outperform the biological equivalents – and sometimes ...

The OroBot. In the late 2010s, John Nyakatura was working to study the gait of an extinct creature called Orobates pabsti.The four-limbed animal, which prowled Earth 280 million years ago, is ...