Wheels might be the simplest method of locomotion for robots, but walkers are infinitely more satisfying to watch. This is certainly the case for [Chen Liang’s] tiny Strider walker controlled ...

A Chinese robotics company, UBTech, has received over 500 orders for its industrial humanoid robot, the Walker S1, from major ...

"To address the limitations of conventional walking manipulators, this paper presents a novel seven-degrees-of-freedom dexterous End-Over-End Walking Robot (E-Walker) for future In-Space Assembly ...

[Max T] sent in this interesting robot design. I dig the combo motion design. The legs can walk, or the wheels flip out time machine style to roll the robot around. Rather than power the wheels ...

Marissa Leshnov for The New York Times A robot girl rises up on her own (through ... the namesake of Kara Walker’s “Fortuna and the Immortality Garden (Machine),” is programmed to ...

Best known for her black cut-paper silhouettes, American artist Kara Walker takes a new technological approach in her latest exhibition at SFMOMA. The show, titled Fortuna and the Immortality ...

Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, have developed a robot that looks like a Star Wars Imperial Walker and can be used for scouting and search-and-rescue ops, according to a ...