Have you ever wondered what would happen if you combined a dog and a car? Well, you might get something like W1, a wheeled quadruped robot that can switch between walking and rolling modes depending ...

Elisha Sauers writes about space for Mashable, taking deep dives into NASA's moon and Mars missions, chatting up astronauts and history-making discoverers, and jetting above the c ...

Human-like hands, fingers and even television camera eyes have been hallmarks of NASA’s Robonaut, but recent work seeks to give the nimble robot legs, or at least a leg, and even wheels. Robonaut took ...

Two years ago we first heard about the Swiss-Mile Robot, a quadruped bot with powered wheels on the ends of its four legs. It's now in for some competition, as China's LimX Dynamics has announced it ...

Watch Unitree's G1 humanoid robot glide on rollerblades and ice skates, pulling off spins and flips while staying perfectly balanced in real time.

Unitree has experimentally fitted each leg of its humanoid G1 robot with a wheel instead of a foot. The robot can thus move faster than on legs alone. However, Unitree does not pr ...

Inspired by the wheel-bodied battle droids from Star Wars, a scientist has created a robot that rolls along on one big wheel, using extendable legs to steer. Instead of smashing the Rebel Alliance, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Researchers at Texas A&M University have constructed a robot with cycloidal wheels, marking a significant step forward in using ...