Thanks to artificial intelligence, robots can already perform many tasks that would otherwise require humans. In this ...

"For this reason, we have been investigating how to eliminate complex walking mechanisms to make simple ... helped to design Zippy based on the team's prior steerable bipedal robot, Mugatu ...

The research represents a step toward more advanced robot design, even though the robots are quite simple and can complete only one task, says N. Katherine Hayles, a professor emerita at Duke ...