A robot dog has been sent into a potentially hazardous area of a nuclear power site to switch back on a mothballed piece of ...

A hopping, insect-sized robot can jump over gaps or obstacles, traverse rough, slippery, or slanted surfaces, and perform aerial acrobatic maneuvers, while using a fraction of the energy required for ...

When major disasters hit and structures collapse, people can become trapped under rubble. Extricating victims from these ...

Engineers have designed robots that crawl, swim, fly and even slither like a snake, but no robot can hold a candle to a squirrel, which can parkour through a thicket of branches, leap across ...

Inspired by the agility of leaping squirrels, researchers have designed a robot that can mimic “nature’s best athletes”.

Using the model, machines can perform some tasks — such as ‘slam-dunking’ a miniature basketball through a desktop hoop — despite never having watched another robot do the action ...

A humanoid machine called Apollo has just taken a tentative, slightly jerky, but significant step forward in the robot revolution. The 5'8" tall robot performed the first public demonstration in a ...