Sirius is a $1,200 robot dog made by a company you’ve never heard of called Hengbot. It’s part of a long lineage of robot ...

This is the surreal moment a human-robot took its robotic pet dog for a walk in dystopian scenes in China. A passerby spotted the automated machine holding a leash attached to a robot pet in ...

The robot dog is waving its legs in the air like an exasperated beetle. After 10 minutes of struggling, it manages to roll over to its front. Half an hour in, the robot is taking its first clumsy ...

The robot overlords are at it again—and this time, they’re learning how to walk faster than us. Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems (MPI-IS) in Germany have created ...

This off-the-shelf dog robot is a perfectly fine place to start. The quadruped is plenty stable in its standard locomotion. As you’d likely expect, that changes quickly when you, say, stick it ...

When University at Buffalo researchers take Yubie the robot dog for a walk on campus, people stop in their tracks and react. Those who haven’t seen the four-legged dog-inspired robot before tend ...

Tesla CEO Elon Musk took the company’s humanoid robot Optimus on a short walk, but not everyone seemed to be on board, some quipping to “kill it with fire.” “Going for a walk with Optimus ...

We trained a robot dog to balance and walk on top of a yoga ball purely in simulation, and then transfer zero-shot to the real world. No fine-tuning. Just works.

Robot dog learns to walk in one hour. ScienceDaily. Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2022 / 07 / 220718122229.htm. Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems.

A big challenge when training AI models to control robots is gathering enough realistic data. Now, researchers at MIT have shown they can train a robot dog using 100 percent synthetic data.