With their delicate and gangly legs, birds aren’t necessarily the first animal you’d think of when designing a new robot that looks to nature to create effective walking abilities. But birds, with ...

Engineers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have created a walking robot/flying drone hybrid that reportedly can perform complex locomotion tasks beyond “simple walking and flying.” ...

Inspired by the agility and efficiency of bat flight, engineers at Caltech and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have created a winged robot they say could dramatically increase the ...

Big deal, I could do that too if I had propellers for arms Big deal, I could do that too if I had propellers for arms Just like a bird, LEONARDO can both walk and fly LEONARDO is a pleasingly choppy ...

PASADENA, Calif.—Scientists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have created a remote-controlled robot that is able to simulate the "visual" experience of a blind person who has been ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- Engineers at Caltech have developed a robot that can seamlessly move between walking and flying. Video shared by the elite Pasadena private research university showed the ...

Leonardo, a newly-developed robot with the ability to fly and walk, is tested at Caltech. Researchers believe the machine could someday be used to traverse difficult landscapes on earth or other on ...

Researchers at Caltech have built a drone-robot hybrid that can do it all. LEONARDO, short for LEgs ONboARD drOne (if that's too much of a mouthful, it also goes by LEO), is a bipedal robot that can ...

PASADENA, Calif.--Even in a collision between robot cars, size might make all the difference. That's the thinking of Team Caltech, a robotics group at the California Institute of Technology that is ...

Specialized robots that can both fly and drive typically touch down on land before attempting to transform and drive away. But when the landing terrain is rough, these robots sometimes get stuck and ...

A paralyzed man named Erik Sorto has finally been able to drink beer on his own after 13 years, and it's all thanks to a robotic arm controlled solely by his mind. If you've been following our ...