Beware! Future robot overlords could have dual-purpose appendages. Well, that might be an exaggeration, but this leg-wheel hybrid mobile robot is definitely a front-runner to star in my recurring ...

While investors are busy pouring billions of dollars into humanoid robots, an MIT roboticist who has been making robots for ...

Have you ever wondered what would happen if you combined a dog and a car? Well, you might get something like W1, a wheeled quadruped robot that can switch between walking and rolling modes depending ...

Brooks, who co-founded iRobot and spent decades at MIT, is particularly skeptical of companies like Tesla and Figure trying ...

Puzhi Robotics has shipped 200 robots, of which 60 percent are wheeled and 40 percent are legged, Cai Zhihao, deputy general ...

Walking, legged robots may excel at climbing over obstacles, but wheels are still more efficient for travelling over smooth ground. That's why engineers at ETH Zurich have added powered wheels to ...

The future of delivery is autonomous and already taking over Old Dominion University. It comes as the institution has introduced this fall a modern approach to bringing its students a bite to eat.

One of the challenges emergency response workers face when trying to deploy a robot into a hazardous setting is getting the robot where it needs to be. Sometimes it's best to throw a robot into a ...

A new robot was designed with that in mind, as it automatically lands on all four of its wheels. Known as AGRO (Agile Ground RObot), the prototype device was created by a team from the US Military ...

Small wheeled robots are great for exploring robotics and it’s easier than ever to get started, thanks to growing availability and affordability of basic components. One such component is a small ...

About eighteen months ago, I told you about a tricycle with square wheels which needed a specially designed road. But now, Distributed Robotics, a company from Troy, N.Y., is developing robots with ...