bipedal robots

This robot relies on human reflexes to keep its balance

As much as we'd like to think that we're entering an era of autonomous robots, they're actually still pretty helpless. To keep them from falling down all the time, a human's fast reflexes could be the

Cassie the ostrich bot does the bipedal robot chicken walk

Bipedal robots are one of the most intensely researched areas of mechanical engineering, and while it's a notoriously difficult problem, there's no shortage of material from which to draw inspiration.