Standing under 1.5 inches tall, the newest bipedal robot from Carnegie Mellon University’s College of Engineering can move ...

Meet Zippy, the world's fastest small bipedal robot, ... its small size has necessitated the addition of a mechanical hard stop to act as a joint limit for its hip.

Rather than using servo motors for joint movement as is common among larger robots, Zippy features a mechanical hard stop that functions as a hip joint limit. ... The paper detailing the robot, “Zippy ...

Zippy, the smallest autonomous bipedal robot ever, ... “Both Zippy’s small size and our mechanical adjustments enable Zippy to walk at an incredible 10 leg lengths per second, ...

A self-powered bipedal robot under 1.5 inches tall demonstrates record speed and agility, achieving 10 leg lengths per second and performing complex maneuvers such as turning and climbing steps using ...

Founded back in 2016 at the Human Centered Robotics Lab at the University of Texas at Austin, Apptronik has been working on putting together the iPhone of bipedal robots, as they call it, and came ...

There is already a mech featured in Cyberpunk2077 that resembles a Metal Gear. The Minotaur is a bipedal mech that works via ...

The April race isn't China's first brush with integrating humanoid robotics into sports. In a trial run last fall, Tiangong, a bipedal robot participated in the Beijing Yizhuang half-marathon ...

Though this seems to be the world's first race explicitly pitting bipedal humans against robots, it won't be the first time a humanoid robot has taken part in a Chinese atheletic competition.

Developing robust benchmarking methods is crucial to evaluate the standing stability of bipedal systems, including humanoid robots and exoskeletons. This paper presents a standardized benchmarking ...

Okay, they might not have been the ones that promised us mech fighting at the end of the world, but it looks like they’re on their way to giving it to players. If nothing else, they’ve added a new ...

Paraplegic tennis player Kevin Piette lost the use of his legs 11 years ago in a crash, but thanks to assistive technology in the form of a bipedal robot, he’s walking the Olympic Torch closer ...