Humans have been fascinated with humanoid machines even before modern engineering made them possible. From Greek mythology to ...

The vision of robots as true partners in our daily work has remained just that—a vision. While we’ve seen an explosion of humanoid and semi-humanoid designs recently, these new platforms face a ...

Their result is the “legged metamachine,” a rugged modular robot that looks strange and moves even more strangely. Yet the researchers say it can literally be cut in half and still function. The robot ...