Adding legs to robots that have minimal awareness of the environment around them can help the robots operate more effectively in difficult terrain, my colleagues and I found. We were inspired by ...

It’s designed to be strong and easy to build, using a minimal number of parts that are all available online, which makes ...

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

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.

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 ...

Robots these days are equipped with locomotion systems to overcome all types of terrain, but tend to favor one type of environment in particular. Scientists at Norway's University of Oslo have ...

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.

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.

For example, Boston Dynamics makes robots that can travel arduous terrain, like steep inclines with obstacles. Some of their robots can jump using leg-like appendages, like other robots.