Meet ANYmal, a four-legged dog-like robot designed by researchers at ETH Zürich in Switzerland, in hopes of using such robots for search-and-rescue on building sites or disaster areas, among other ...

Researches used a model trained on parkour completions to teach this 100 pound robot to run through an obstacle course. Researchers from ETH Zurich are trying to close the mobility gap between robots ...

Researchers at MIT created an AI-powered simulator capable of generating limitless, realistic training data for robots. The system, named LucidSim, uses AI-generated images to train a robot dog in ...

The quadrupedal robot ANYmal went back to school and has learned a lot. Researchers used machine learning to teach it new skills: the robot can now climb over obstacles and successfully negotiate ...

After a headline in the title of the article said that "scientists taught it to do parkour" and a video title boldly say in its title "This Robot Can Do Parkour". This isn't even as accurate as saying ...

When it comes to emergency response, there are a ton of barriers that even trained professionals need to overcome, such as being able to quickly reach the patient in the shortest amount of time ...

( Nanowerk News) Engineers have designed robots that crawl, swim, fly and even slither like a snake, but no robot can hold a ...

The last time we saw RHex, he/she/it wasn’t quite as polished and coordinated as this latest video shows. A lot can and did happen in three months. Does This Acrobatic Robot Have Olympic Aspirations?

We've already seen them dance, but now Boston Dynamics humanoid robots do parkour and despite the fact that developers and engineers working on the androids say that "there are details to improve," it ...

In 1954, George Devol created the first modern robot, programmable and digitally operated. In 1988, 15-year-old Frenchman David Belle created the sport of Parkour. And in 2013, the University of ...

Without the limitations of, you know, human bodies and gravity and all that junk, the already-crazy sport of parkour (or “extreme running”) becomes even more amazing. This bit is from a Nike ad and ...

Boston Dynamics has released a new explanation of one of Atlas’s most striking behaviors.