I always wanted to program robots as a child, and I am lucky that I do exactly that today. But back then I wasn't thinking about self-driving cars. I imagined that my robots would look like the golden ...

Ten years ago, they were barely able to move. Today, the autonomous walking robots developed by Marco Hutter and his team are disrupting entire fields. In the future, these highly mobile robots could ...

Researchers at ETH Zurich and MIT created a multi-material 3D printed hand using a process invented to enable the innovation of soft robotics. (Thomas Buchner via Courthouse News Service) (CN) — To ...

We've seen robot dogs run up hills with luggage, and help fight fires. Now, researchers at Switzerland's ETH Zurich are putting these mechanical mutts through their paces on the badminton court, ...

Swiss researchers are working on an environmental monitoring robot named Avocado that's been inspired by abseiling spiders. The fruit-shaped bot uses a winch and rotors to lower itself through the ...

Robotics specialists from a group led by eth professor Raffaello D'Andrea have created a new, cube- shaped robot that can balance on its pivot and compensate for external disturbances. What makes the ...

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A team of engineers at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETH Zurich) has developed a four-legged ANYmal robot that can play badminton with a human. The researchers are using ...