How robots could run and walk like animals and humans Robots are helping perform surgeries in the operating room, catching the journalism bug and even working on late-night TV.

Getting a bipedal robot to not fall on its face, much less walk, is a feat that no one has mastered. But roboticists are getting there.

But this robot can’t see, and MIT’s researchers didn’t train it to walk or run. Rather, it taught itself, and in just three hours. The key: removing humans from most of the process.

Remember that scene in Walt Disney’s Bambi where the titular fawn learns to stand up and walk under its own power? Like that, basically, but with a robot.

Elon Musk’s Tesla robot’s journey to walk like humans Learning to walk may seem simple for humans, but for robots, it’s a complex task requiring advanced algorithms and sophisticated ...

Get the latest federal technology news delivered to your inbox. Artificial intelligence has done more than teach a robot to walk. It taught a robot to learn to walk, researchers report. The ...

Walking is hard, and what's hard for humans is equally confounding for robots. But with the help of machine learning, a robot learned to walk in just a few hours—a good 12 months faster than the ...

Google is creating AI-powered robots that navigate without human intervention—a prerequisite to being useful in the real world.

The robot is able to walk — much like a human — by placing one foot in front of the other. While this is a step forward for the robot, is it a step forward for robotic development?

Rhagobot isn’t exactly the first thing that comes to mind at the mention of a robot. Inspired by Rhagovelia water striders, ...

New ‘Paleo-Robots’ Could Shed Light on Animal Evolution, Revealing How Some Fish Evolved to ‘Walk’ on Land A team of roboticists, paleontologists and biologists are building robots to ...

In a rooftop garden at Facebook’s Menlo Park headquarters, a six-legged robot named Daisy is making chittering noises as it staggers on the sandy ground.