It's routine for four-legged robots with computer vision to navigate stairs, but getting a "blind" bipedal robot to do it is a whole other challenge. Now, researchers from Oregon State University have ...

Agility Robotics, the creator of the bipedal robot Digit, is opening a manufacturing plant in Salem, Oregon that will give the company the capacity to produce more than 10,000 humanoid robots a year.

University of Tokyo researchers created a new bipedal robot that runs with living muscle tissue. This unique component enables the machine to walk on two legs and make sharp turns to avoid obstacles.

Making a bipedal robot is hard. You have to make sure maintain exquisite balance at all times and, even with the amazing things Atlas can do, there is still a chance that your crazy robot will fall ...

In a first, Oregon State University says its bipedal robot Cassie managed to go from the couch to a 5K in 53 minutes. It’s an impressive feat of machine learning and robotics engineering, but as far ...

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In a scene reminiscent of Iron Man 2, Korean engineers demonstrate a working manned bipedal robot in a series of Instagram videos posted by its designer Vitaly Bulgarov. The good thing is that these ...

Are bipedal, bimanual robots nearly ready to work alongside humans? Probably not, but we’re getting closer, as Boston Dynamics’ latest marketing videos demonstrate. Are bipedal, bimanual robots nearly ...

Ford and Agility Team Up for Bipedal Robot Deliveries Carrying out that final delivery step from the car to the door has yet to be automated, but Ford and Agility Robotics are attempting to solve it ...

The savvy marketers at Boston Dynamics produced two major robotics news cycles last week. The larger of the two was, naturally, the electric Atlas announcement. As I write this, the sub-40 second ...

James Vincent is a senior reporter who has covered AI, robotics, and more for eight years at The Verge. Ask the elderly, toddlers, or the very drunk: walking can be tough. And the times when it is, ...

Should you need inspiration to lace up today, take it from Cassie: a bipdal robot that just made history by running its first outdoor 5k. Built by Oregon State University and Agility Robotics, the ...