From the outside, this pair of robotic legs by a team of United States-based researchers may look like part of an experiment to see how lifelike scientists can make robots seem. But a key component ...

Sometimes a simple walk around the block can become a meaningful journey. “He loves to move. He does not like sitting in his chair,” said Tiffany Goodchild, mother of 6-year-old Karter Goodchild from ...

Crossing a room shouldn't feel like a marathon. But for many stroke survivors, even the smallest number of steps carries ...

Hugh Herr’s bionic limbs have already revolutionized life for amputees (including himself). Now he’s envisioning new capabilities for everyone else Matthew Shaer At 5 o’clock on a blistering morning ...

Researchers at ETH Zürich are very good at keeping robots standing upright. Back in 2022, the school’s robotics team taught the quadrupedal ANYmal robot how to hike up mountains without falling over.

If I asked you to design the perfect robot for throwing a block, you’d probably think of something humanoid, with legs for stability and hands for grasping. And who could blame you? If humans are good ...

A University of Texas at Dallas professor applied robot control theory to enable powered prosthetics to dynamically respond to the wearer's environment and help amputees walk. In research available ...

Open-source design and programming could accelerate scientific advances by offering a unified platform to fragmented research efforts across the field of prosthetics. An open-source, artificially ...