Adding legs to robots that have minimal awareness of the environment around them can help the robots operate more effectively in difficult terrain, my colleagues and I found. We were inspired by ...

This is the more unique of your stair climbing robot vacuums, and the one that's new for this year. At CES 2026, robot vacuum ...

Robot vacuums have spent years bumping politely into the base of staircases, forever exiled to a home’s ground floor. Dreame ...

Roborock unveiled at CES the Saros Rover, a robot vacuum with mechanical wheel-legs that can autonomously climb stairs and navigate uneven household surfaces.

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When it comes to methods of locomotion for robots, wheels are good for some things, while legs are better for others. Scientists are now working on a bot that combines the best of both worlds, with ...

Robots these days are equipped with locomotion systems to overcome all types of terrain, but tend to favor one type of environment in particular. Scientists at Norway's University of Oslo have instead ...

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