When Figure, a company developing humanoid robots, needed ideas for disposing of its previous generation, an elegant solution ...

Figure AI has given its retired humanoid robots an extraordinary final mission, training them to leap into a 75 ton furnace ...

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As our skies increasingly crowd with buzzing, hovering, flitting drones, spare a thought for the humble hopping robot. Hopping, a popular form of locomotion in the insect and amphibian worlds, is ...

We’ve already seen robots that can swim like fish, stick to walls like geckos, and grab objects like elephants. Now, ...

Teardrop-shaped soft robots use infrared light to store and release elastic energy, repeatedly crawling or jumping across varied terrain without resetting. “This ‘ring leaper’ design is very simple,” ...

Engineers have created DirectHop, a roughly 1-gram robot that can perform multiple hops in sequence and jump high enough to clear a standard stair step. As our skies increasingly crowd with buzzing, ...

Researchers reveal the physics of jumping shell structures, improving control and agility in soft robots inspired by the mechanics of a simple popper toy. The team meticulously analyzed the jumping ...

Newswise — As our skies increasingly crowd with buzzing, hovering, flitting drones, spare a thought for the humble hopping robot. Hopping, a popular form of locomotion in the insect and amphibian ...

California robotics company Figure AI wanted to retire its decommissioned robots in style. So it trained the robots to jump off ledges and then sent them to a steel plant in Finland for a ...

Based on studies of leaping squirrels, researchers have designed a robot that can stick a landing on a branch. Engineers have designed robots that crawl, swim, fly, and even slither like a snake, but ...