[James Bruton] is on a quest to explore all the weird and wonderful methods of robot locomotion, and in his latest project created an omnidirectional walker that can move in any direction ...

Robots offer potential for public safety, but state governments — working with a big name in robotics — are grappling with how to regulate them, especially as the prospect of weaponization raises ...

Human-looking bipedal robots can already run ... One thing they are still pretty bad at though is walking a straight line without looking like they are moments away from soiling themselves.

In a video (top) shared on X on Tuesday, Figure showed its own humanoid 02 robot performing “learned, natural walking.” Figure’s footage demonstrates the scale of the improvement in walking ...

which in turn allows the robot to walk in a straight line. Next steps include finding ways to store the compressed gas inside the robots and using recyclable or biodegradable materials.