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“Using our technology, the robot is able to adapt to one of its legs becoming weaker or breaking," says Nygaard. "It can learn how to recover, whether through limping or decreasing the length of ...

Now, a new robot developed by Stanford engineers has a useful set of bird-like features such as claws, toe pads, curving feet, and bending legs that allow it to land smoothly anywhere.

After each run, the scientists added additional pairs of legs, until the robot ultimately had a total of 16 legs. It was found that as the robot gained more legs, it became increasingly better at ...