To support each team, students receive a base robot, a toolkit, and a $300 budget at the start of the semester. From there, they need to program their robots to autonomously navigate the obstacle ...

Boston Dynamics has published a pair of videos showcasing its Atlas robots completing a complex obstacle course that requires balancing on beams and vaults. The company's Atlas robotics program is ...

An army of more than 4,000 marching doglike robots is a vaguely menacing sight, even in a simulation. But it may point the way for machines to learn new tricks. In the simulation, the machines ...

Technology Watch an AI-powered robot dog crawl around an obstacle course. A four-legged robot can handle real-world obstacles that require scrambling up and down or leaping sizeable gaps.

Researchers from ETH Zurich are trying to close the mobility gap between robots and animals with a new highly-mobile robot capable of running, jumping, and crawling its way through obstacle courses.

Watch robot dogs train on obstacle courses to avoid tripping. Four-legged robots have a tough time traipsing through heavy vegetation, but a new stride pattern could help. By Andrew Paul.

By Kara Manke, UC Berkeley Topping out at less than a foot, Salto the robot looks like a Star Wars imperial walker in miniature. But don’t be fooled by its size — this little ...