Research suggests that early macropodoids likely adopted a bounding gait before transitioning to bipedal hopping. Small ...

H umans and animals are the key inspiration for many robotic systems developed to date, as they possess body structures that innately support efficient locomotion. While many bipedal (i.e., two ...

To understand why kangaroos hop -- a rarity among animals -- researchers have studied the musky rat-kangaroo (Hypsiprymnodon moschatus), a diminutive marsupial that weighs only 500 grams but is the ...

How did humans evolve into the big-brained, bipedal ape that we are today ... ancestors between ourselves and every other living organism, from porcupines to flamingoes to cactuses.

Kangaroos and closely related wallabies are the only large animals to hop upright on two legs ... "These results signal a potential pathway to how bipedal hopping evolved in kangaroos," said Harvard ...

Research on bipedal robots has amassed over the years, and as the saying goes, if these Imagineers saw further it was by standing on the shoulders of larger robotic platforms. However, the Project ...

announced the deployment of the first bipedal humanoid in its AI-powered fully-robotic drug discovery laboratory. The humanoid, called “Supervisor” will be used for data acquisition and data ...