A video (top) features some of the robots in action on the first day. A running contest, for example, shows several of the ...

Robots are helping perform surgeries in the operating room, catching the journalism bug and even working on late-night TV. Now, researchers are working to instill in robots the movement ...

While we've seen a number of quadruped "robotic dogs" lately, they all require control motors to maintain their running gait. An experimental new one, however, keeps running on its own once it's ...

Over 500 robots competed in soccer, boxing, and running. In many cases, gravity was the real winner. This week, China’s ...

Humanoid robots running alongside humans. E-Town There’ll be huffing and puffing, and probably a fair amount of creaking and clattering, too. We’re talking about the first-ever long-distance ...

Move over remote control cars and helicopters: the world of dad toys needs to make room for the world's first six-legged running robot. So when you're relaxing on the beach, break out OutRunner ...

A two-legged robot from Oregon State named Cassie made history by running the fastest 100 meters by a bipedal robot for the Guinness World Record.

In the latest episode of What the Future, we run down the best highlights and fails from the first World Humanoid Robot Games held last week in China.

DARPAs latest running robot runs faster than any human alive, at least for a little while.

Researchers have built a robot that can run at 3:20/mile pace; They are also working on a humanoid version that can "jog" -- which doesn't bode well for the robot, by the way -- and squeeze ...

After three years of “training”, including broken limbs, the gold medal for “the world’s fastest bipedal robot with knees” is to be hung around the neck of a robot called MABEL. The ...