RHex is one of the robot-darlings of the internet, and this latest video shows exactly why. An all-terrain walking bot developed by US military researchers Boston Dynamics and the University of ...

By Doug Gross, CNN If you only watch one video today of a robot that hurtles across uneven terrain like a water-walking lizard, does gymnastic back flips and climbs tall objects, make it this one.

Military robots are almost two a-penny, but few of them will incite fear and loathing at the tingling nerves at the top of your spine like this one--a six legged, half-wheel bot that can happily ...

The RHex robot project began about 15 years ago when researchers at several universities began asking what it would take for robots to traverse rugged terrain as well as animals do. "You look at ...

Experimental robots can have some fairly jarring means of locomotion, but wait until you see the X-RHex, a half-wheeled, half-legged robot who scoffs at hills, grass, and other terrain. Watch this ...

In a paper about RHex the robot, University of Pennsylvania's Aaron Johnson and Daniel Koditcschek, say they have been teaching the robot Parkour to get the most out of his simple, one-jointed ...

By Doug Gross, CNN If you only watch one video today of a robot that hurtles across uneven terrain like a water-walking lizard, does gymnastic back flips and climbs tall objects, make it this one.