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 ...

Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We ...

The idea of a single robot that can transform into three different machines sounds like science fiction, but it is already sitting on workbenches and factory floors. In the prosumer corner of that ...

Nature is, of course, the master engineer—been there, seen it, solved it. While we struggle to design buildings that don't ...

“LimX Dynamics is driving innovation in general-purpose humanoids and foundational platform for modular robots,” stated the Shenzhen, China-based company. “Through continued product engineering ...

We met up with Fredrick Layton from Carnegie Mellon University and talked to him about their modular snake robot. We met up with Fredrick Layton from Carnegie Mellon University and talked to him about ...

Forget Thing T. Thing from The Addams Family; modern science has officially brought us a detachable robot hand that can actually skitter across the floor and grab you a beer and creep the heck out of ...

Microsoft Research has given a glimpse at some of its prototype data center robotics efforts. In a paper for Hotnets, the team said that "this marks the beginning of a fundamental shift in how we ...