A robot with bird-like legs that can walk, hop, leap and jump for take-off into flight has been designed in Switzerland in an engineering breakthrough that could enable aircraft to operate in ...

Until now, building a machine able to endure the immense forces involved when a bird springs from its feat has proven challenging. They add: “However, challenges remain in reproducing multimodal ...

For decades, futurists have promised that robots will transform society, yet that still feels like a distant prospect. In this episode, recorded live at the “Web Summit” technology conference in ...