The ultra-springy GOAT robot leg can perform impressive vertical leaps, and could one day help robots get better at navigating over difficult terrain.

Humanlike robot legs taking baby steps Researchers at the University of Arizona have built a pair of legs that can walk like a baby thanks to a simple robotic nervous system.

Multi-leg locomotion like this has been done in a process called tensegrity, but in that form, the legs extend only far enough to make the robot tumble in the desired direction.

The first thing to notice about [Bijuo]’s cat-sized quadruped robot designs (link is in Korean, Google translation here) is how slim and sleek the legs are. That’s because unlike most legged ...

These schematics, obtained by Wired, show everything that's needed to build a Jaeger, like the giant robots used to defend Earth in Guillermo Del Toro's upcoming movie Pacific Rim.

Along with the ability to automatically adjust to the surface they’re traversing, the legs move faster and jump higher than their more standardized electric counterparts.

More accurately, if the robot is immobilized by a broken leg, it only takes a few seconds for it to learn how to walk again, using a new gait that minimizes the impact of the broken leg.

MEVITA's design makes it both sturdy and easy to build by using a minimal number of parts that can all be found and bought ...