Most of the robots in existence are clumsy buffoons. Case in point: As advanced as our robots have become, they’re mostly still lacking the very human ability to avoid falls by making seemingly ...

Simon Kalouche, a researcher Carnegie Mellon University, however, has just presented his masters thesis for a new kind of robot leg entirely, the GOAT leg. Named not because it is the Greatest robot ...

As robots move out of research laboratories and into the real world, it’s important that they have the ability to maneuver over ground that maybe that isn’t quite as smooth and easy to navigate as ...

Simon Kalouche posits a new form of robotic leg, one designed for maximum range of motion and, more importantly, an easily control method for force reduction. In other words, this is the kind of leg ...

Each leg can bend in multiple ways, lift, and move independently of the others to ensure that stability is maintained ...

For all the neural-controlled, bluetooth-enabled and sport-specific prosthetics humanity has designed over the years, one thing remains constant: most of of them are lousy for climbing rock faces.