Animals in their natural environments effortlessly switch up their movements to hunt, escape from predators, and travel with their packs every day. By chasing cockroaches through an obstacle course ...

Locomotive magnetic soft robots are categorized based on their structural characteristics into one-dimensional (1D), two-dimensional (2D), three-dimensional (3D), and fluidic types. Recently, Dr.

Researchers have been playing around with various oddball forms of robot locomotion; surely, we’ve seen it all, haven’t we? Not so! Lucky for us, [researchers at Stanford] are now showing us a new way ...

NorthWest African Cheetahs at Chester Zoo. Image by Steve Wilson via Wikipedia (CC BY 2.0) NorthWest African Cheetahs at Chester Zoo. Image by Steve Wilson via Wikipedia (CC BY 2.0) Researchers from ...

Building conventional robots typically requires carefully combining components like motors, batteries, actuators, body segments, legs, and wheels. Now, researchers have taken a new approach, building ...

Most robots have one means of locomotion—they might roll, fly, walk, or even swim. Rarely do they do more than one, though. Engineers at Caltech's Center for Autonomous Systems and Technologies (CAST) ...

AI-designed metamachines run in the wild, recover from damage and transform into new shapes, according to recent studies. These new modular legged robots are said possess athletic intelligence and ...