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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

ETH Zurich researchers have developed a new control approach enabling a legged robot, called ANYmal, to move quickly and robustly over difficult terrain. Led by ETH Zurich robotics professor Marco ...