Varying the relative speed and direction of each of the mechanisms lets the robot move in any direction, similar to his ball-wheeled robot. Each strider mechanism uses a single motor and looks ...

Abstract: The utilization of single degree-of-freedom (DOF) closed-chain mechanisms as leg mechanisms of quadruped robots has been studied because of its advantages, such as a lightweight structure ...

Harvard researchers have developed a small, agile robot capable of walking and jumping, inspired by hopping hexapods like ...

Springtails, small bugs often found crawling through leaf litter and garden soil, are expert jumpers. Inspired by these hopping hexapods, roboticists have made a walking, jumping robot that pushes the ...

Springtails, small bugs often found crawling through leaf litter and garden soil, are expert jumpers. Inspired by these ...

This came up in a Florida case where a widower sued medical robot-maker Intuitive Surgical Inc over his wife's death in 2022.

Governments around the world have barely started thinking about the safety issues of the upcoming robotics revolution.

Walking into your favorite restaurant and seeing a robot chef in the kitchen may seem far-fetched, but new research suggests that bots could be a solution to persistent labor shortages in the industry ...

The simplicity of the springtail’s jumping mechanism intrigued the researchers. “Its furcula consists of just two or three ...

Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have made a walking ... use of a similar mechanism, along with insights from springtail jumps, for small jumping robots,” Wood said.