Boston Dynamics’ robot dog “Spot” has become somewhat of an internet sensation, no doubt thanks to its (perhaps disturbingly) killer dance moves or displays of super-strength. But Spot is far from the ...

The last time we saw RHex, he/she/it wasn’t quite as polished and coordinated as this latest video shows. A lot can and did happen in three months. Does This Acrobatic Robot Have Olympic Aspirations?

Understanding Boston Dynamics’ Current Ownership and Trajectory So, Boston Dynamics. It’s a name that really gets people ...

Meet ANYmal, a four-legged dog-like robot designed by researchers at eth Zürich in Switzerland, in hopes of using such robots ...

Researchers at MIT created an AI-powered simulator capable of generating limitless, realistic training data for robots. The system, named LucidSim, uses AI-generated images to train a robot dog in ...

Atlas, Boston Dynamics’ dancing humanoid, can now use a single model for walking and grasping—a significant step toward general-purpose robot algorithms.

When a real-world Montgomery Burns snarls "release the hounds" in the near future, you'd better hope that it's not a pack of determined and capable Lynx robodogs coming after you. We've already seen ...

Without the limitations of, you know, human bodies and gravity and all that junk, the already-crazy sport of parkour (or “extreme running”) becomes even more amazing. This bit is from a Nike ad and ...

This is today's edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the world of technology. Generative AI taught a robot dog to scramble around a new ...