Both CHEETAH and ATLAS will also build upon control software and mechanical and electrical systems designed for PETMAN, and for the company's quadruped pack horse-like BigDog military robot.

On land, the robot's double-jointed legs adopt a trotting gait, taking it to a top speed of 1.2 BL/s (body-lengths per second). Swimming in the water, it still manages a decent 0.54 BL/s.

MUNICH, Germany — At the RoboCup robot soccer festival in Atlanta, the Technical University Darmstadt will present its latest robot creation. The hitherto nameless quadruped is designed as a modular ...

Robot humanoids are cool, but also a bit hard to make work as they only have two legs to stand on. Four-legged robots can be a bit more approachable. The Dingo Quadruped aims to be just such an ope… ...

Researchers successfully built a quadruped robot that's capable of climbing ladders. The robot was created by a team at Tokyo Metropolitan University and debuted earlier this month, IEEE Spectrum ...

Researchers have designed a system that makes an off-the-shelf quadruped robot nimble enough to walk a narrow balance beam -- a feat that is likely the first of its kind.

Some legged robots end up moving with ponderous deliberation, or wavering in unstable-looking jerks. A few unfortunates manage to do both at once. [MusaW]’s 3D Printed Quadruped Robot, on the… ...

Thermonator is a quadruped robot with an ARC flamethrower mounted to its back, fueled by gasoline or napalm. It features a one-hour battery, a 30-foot flame-throwing range, ...

This quadruped robot is capable of running and jumping on tough terrain, ... “The simple pitch is that these are software-controlled legged robots that use high torque motors, ...

A Swiss-made quadruped robot recently spent a week carrying out autonomous inspection tasks on one of the world's largest offshore power distribution platforms in the North Sea. This involved ...