This robot is the fastest in its category Thanks to its legs, whose design faithfully reproduces feline morphology, EPFL’s four-legged “cheetah-cub robot” has the same advantages as its mode... Read more
Over the past few weeks, Japan has unveiled robotic exoskeletons and quadrupeds designed to work in radioactive areas Today Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) has revealed its own inspection... Read more
In less radioactive areas, humans may soon enter wearing robotic exoskeletons. Toshiba has unveiled a four-legged inspection robot, which will carry out work at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear... Read more
It is approximately one-tenth as loud as the original version Fans of freaky-looking robots will already be familiar with DARPA’s quadruped Legged Squad Support System, or LS3 (although it’s... Read more
HyQ is the Italian cousin of Boston Dynamics‘ DARPA-funded BigDog. Under development at Istituto Italiano Di Tecnologia (IIT) by a group of researchers led by Professor Darwin Caldwell... Read more
It would be scary to be chased by a military robot. It would also be scary to be chased by a cheetah. So, imagine what it would be like to have a military robotic cheetah sprinting after you... Read more