Engineers at the University of California San Diego have developed the first soft robot that is capable of walking on rough surfaces, such as sand and pebbles. The 3-D-printed, four-legged robot ...

Using a complex move the researchers dubbed "rear rotator pedaling," the robot can climb a slope by using its unique ... Goldman's group that involved moving with legs or flippers, which had ...

Theories that predict how legged animals and robots move across a granular environment — surfaces made up of lots of small particles like sand and gravel — have proven more difficult than ...

A six-legged skiing robot can be seen expertly slaloming down a snowy white slope in unbelievable footage of tests undertaken in Shenyang, China this month. The robot — which stands with two ...

Legged robots ... modeling based on the robot’s physical pressure interacting with the ground reactions of various mediums to simulate deforming terrain, such as sand. All of this information ...

Potential terrains include grass (naturally), sand, gravel ... beyond the admittedly narrow world of robot soccer. The debate around the efficacy of legged robots rages on, but one thing is ...

Engineers at the University of California San Diego have developed the first soft robot that is capable of walking on rough surfaces, such as sand and pebbles. The 3D-printed, four-legged robot ...