Named "Spot," the quadruped robot from developers Boston Dynamics has been on the cutting edge of canine-like robots for several years now. Its newest trick is a triple backflip. While there isn't a ...

Robot dogs bopping to the soaring tunes of a child prodigy violinist and powerful performances by K-pop megastar G-Dragon and ...

Researchers with the University of Maryland are turning a dog they nicknamed Spot into a robot that can assess patients at mass casualty scenes.

In a simulated natural disaster, robotic drones from the University of Maryland's RoboScout Team arrived first, scanning the ...

Quadruped robots are fast evolving from backflipping tech demos to serious testbeds for computer systems navigating the real ...

This video of 10 robot dogs from Boston Dynamics hauling a monster truck is somewhat disconcerting. My chum Arthur Smith used to be one of the world’s foremost authorities with regard to research into ...

Part 1 of the TED Radio Hour episode "How taking a second look can change your everything" In communist Poland, the radio gave Agnieszka Pilat's family hope. Now, as an artist and techno-optimist, she ...

Humanoid robots have been getting a lot of buzz this year. But quadrupeds — the mechanical “dogs” — are emerging as the true proving ground for embodied artificial intelligence.