What's 3.6 cm tall (1.4 in), and could one day be performing tasks such as walking through disaster site rubble looking for trapped survivors? It's Zippy, which is reportedly the smallest ...

It's now actually not that unusual to see quadruped robots that have powered wheels for feet, allowing them to either walk or roll as the situation dictates. The modular D1 is different, though, in ...

The feasible planar regions are used for footstep planning, preventing the body from hitting obstacles, and the heightmap is used to calculate foot trajectory to avoid foot collision during the swing ...

In 1987, Richard Greenhill, a British photographer who was fascinated by (but had no actual training in) robotics, decided he wanted to build a life-size humanoid that could do useful things, like ...

I spent an hour with Humanoid's Sotirios Stasinopoulos in the company's UK headquarters. In spite of huge competition, their ...