The robot was custom-made for the project and combines high-end components like a 3D laser scanner or lidar developed by Alphabet’s self-driving unit Waymo with broad use of plastic to make ...

While Boston Dynamics and its Atlas robot have dominated headlines on Alphabet’s robotics research, it’s not the only robotics company that it owns. Another Alphabet company, called Schaft, is working ...

Schaft has been working on a bipedal robot, and they are finally showing off more of it at the New Economic Summit in Tokio, Japan. It looks quite impressive.