Doctors say Rep. Gabrielle Giffords can walk a little and is even trying to improve her gait. Giffords uses her left side and has begun making limited use of her right arm and leg, a common effect of ...

A quadruped robot has learned to walk across slippery, uneven terrain entirely through simulation, without any human-designed gaits or manual tuning. The system relies on deep reinforcement learning ...

Not everybody agrees that replicating the four-limbed, bipedal shape of a human should be replicated in robot form. For one, walking with two feet is inherently less stable than four, nevermind a set ...

In early December 2025, Chinese robotics firm EngineAI introduced its humanoid robot T800. Unlike those already seen by BGR, including Neura's task-oriented 4NE1 robot, which will eventually help ...

DisneyResearchHub has published a detailed technical paper outlining how Walt Disney Imagineering Research & Development successfully brought Olaf into the physical world as a fully free-walking ...

Abstract: Stabilizing walking motion is important to avoid unexpected falling for physically weak persons such as elderly. It is known that light touch makes human posture stable. This paper presents ...

The robot walked over 2.5 full marathons in China. One robot just walked its way into history. Chinese robotics company AgiBot has set a new world record for the longest distance walked by a humanoid ...

The bolted-to-the-floor animatronics weren’t uncanny enough, so Disney created a free-roaming robot that moves “with creative intent.” Sounds an awful lot like “a mind of its own.” Disney Imagineering ...

A humanoid robot has strolled into the record books after completing the longest-ever walk by such a machine. Built by Chinese robotics firm AgiBot, the A2’s record-breaking trek covered 106.3 ...

The new Research & Development episode of We Call It Imagineering showcases how Imagineers use artificial intelligence (AI) to create advanced robots, bringing various characters to life. Imagineers ...

Xpeng founder He Xiaopeng introduces Iron, a new humanoid robot. Credit: Jade Gao / AFP via Getty Images Xpeng, a Chinese electric vehicle company, stunned social media with the introduction of its ...