Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Researches used a model trained on parkour completions to teach this 100 pound robot to run through an obstacle course.

Meet ANYmal, a four-legged dog-like robot designed by researchers at ETH Zürich in Switzerland, in hopes of using such robots for search-and-rescue on building sites or disaster areas, among other ...

The quadrupedal robot ANYmal went back to school and has learned a lot. Researchers used machine learning to teach it new skills: the robot can now climb over obstacles and successfully negotiate ...

In a paper about RHex the robot, University of Pennsylvania's Aaron Johnson and Daniel Koditcschek, say they have been teaching the robot Parkour to get the most out of his simple, one-jointed legs.

Boston Dynamics spent most of its 29-year history with no consumer products at all. Now, it has one in the $75,000 Spot robot. There's still no way to buy the company's humanoid Atlas robot, but it's ...

A team of roboticists and AI specialists at the Robotics & Artificial Intelligence Lab in Korea has designed, built and successfully tested a four-legged robot that is capable of conducting high-speed ...

It was surprising, then, that on Tuesday the company announced the “retirement” of Atlas. But the brief confusion over what it all meant ended late Wednesday when Boston Dynamics revealed its all-new, ...

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 ...

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