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

Robotics company Boston Dynamics has shared a new video of its latest-generation humanoid robot, dubbed Atlas, doing forward ...

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Scientists stalking a small marsupial through a remote Australian rainforest say they may have found a clue to the mystery of ...

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 ...

German carmaker Mercedes-Benz announced it has deployed the Apptronik Apollo humanoid robot on the floor of its ...

According to Boston Dynamics, the new physicalities are “demonstrating policies developed using reinforcement learning with ...

Scientists stalking a small marsupial through a remote Australian rainforest say they may have found a clue to the mystery of ...

Even when travelling at high speeds, muskies always use quadrupedal gaits, never rearing up on just their back legs,” says Harvard ... in the evolution of bipedal hopping in macropodoids.” ...

As the only living macropodoid (the group that includes kangaroos, wallabies, potoroos and bettongs) that doesn’t hop, they can provide a crucial insight into how and when this iconic form of ...

A musky rat-kangaroo in the Atherton Tablelands, Queensland. Photo by Amy TschirnTo understand why kangaroos hop - a rarity ...

‘Mickey 17’ follows a group of people on a space mission to colonize Niflheim, an ice-covered planet that’s home to a set of ...