How robots could run and walk like animals and humans Robots are helping perform surgeries in the operating room, catching the journalism bug and even working on late-night TV.

Getting a bipedal robot to not fall on its face, much less walk, is a feat that no one has mastered. But roboticists are getting there.

Walking is hard, and what's hard for humans is equally confounding for robots. But with the help of machine learning, a robot learned to walk in just a few hours—a good 12 months faster than the ...

Get the latest federal technology news delivered to your inbox. Artificial intelligence has done more than teach a robot to walk. It taught a robot to learn to walk, researchers report. The ...

But this robot can’t see, and MIT’s researchers didn’t train it to walk or run. Rather, it taught itself, and in just three hours. The key: removing humans from most of the process.

Elon Musk’s Tesla robot’s journey to walk like humans Learning to walk may seem simple for humans, but for robots, it’s a complex task requiring advanced algorithms and sophisticated ...

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.

The robot is able to walk — much like a human — by placing one foot in front of the other. While this is a step forward for the robot, is it a step forward for robotic development?

Google algorithm lets robots teach themselves to walk It's a milestone in making robots more useful.

A psychological theory could kickstart improvements in the way robots are able to walk, thanks to a new study.

Rhagobot isn’t exactly the first thing that comes to mind at the mention of a robot. Inspired by Rhagovelia water striders, ...

In a rooftop garden at Facebook’s Menlo Park headquarters, a six-legged robot named Daisy is making chittering noises as it staggers on the sandy ground.