[Ye Guan] has always been fascinated by walking robots — so he decided to build his own. It’s called Project Sentinel, and he’s loosely based the design off of the Sentinel Walker from ...

Some days, we might be forgiven for believing Boston Dynamics has cornered the market on walking robots ... Research on bipedal robots has amassed over the years, and as the saying goes, if ...

First identified by archaeologists in 1978, the site was initially found to be home to at least 70 hominin footprints ...

It may have walked along branches and even on the ground some 12 million years ago, pushing back the timeline for bipedal walking, say researchers. Until now the earliest fossil evidence for ...

A new modular bipedal robot from Limx Dynamics, the Tron 1, looks like a combination of a Scout Walker from Star Wars and a Cylon from Battlestar Galactica. It's safe to assume that the team that ...

In fact, when the sun shone directly overhead, the heat load upon a hominid on two feet would have been 60 percent less than that upon a knuckle-walker. Additionally, bipedalism raised hominids ...

An curved arrow pointing right. This walking robot looks like it just walked out of Transformers. The Method-2 bipedal robot is a prototype from Korean company Hancook Mirae Technology.

The first human-like traits to appear in the hominin fossil record are bipedal walking and smaller, blunt canines.