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Another Star Trek technology :) Might have an positive psychological effect if astronauts on long term missions could virtually escape their confinement - walking through a labyrinth with the blue sky above them. Ok, ISS does not provide enough space, but on Moon or Mars...

Is there not a risk that while walking in circles this way the cable I keep dragging behind will eventually strangle me?

Origami bot!

It's really cool when it folds up, but then it's such a disappointing walk :) I also fail to see an advantage over regular robots. If you care about saving space during transportation, you could design a robot with that in mind without much sacrifice to it's locomotion capabilities.

It's cute but I've seen better from amateurs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zK8OjwMdn5I

If a microid were stepped on, it would probably just get up and walk away...

What about battery charging by walking on them ?

"Horsetail plant spores use 'legs' to walk and jump!"

fantastic walk through Pompei!

University Alliance for Low Carbon Energy   Three universities, including Tsinghua University, University of Cambridge, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, have fostered up an alliance on November 15, 2009 to advocate low carbon energy and climate change adaptation The alliance will mainly work on 6 major areas: clean coal technology and CCS, homebuilding energy efficiency, industrial energy efficiency and sustainable transport, biomass energy and other renewable energy, advanced nuclear energy, intelligent power grid, and energy policies/planning. A steering panel made up of the senior experts from the three universities (two from each) will be established to review, evaluate, and endorse the goals, projects, fund raising activities, and collaborations under the alliance. With the Headquarters at the campus of Tsinghua University and branch offices at other two universities, the alliance will be chaired by a scientist selected from Tsinghua University.   According to a briefing, the alliance will need a budget of USD 3-5 million, mainly from the donations of government, industry, and all walks of life. In this context, the R&D findings derived from the alliance will find its applications in improving people's life.

CHARLI is the first untethered, autonomous, full-sized, walking, humanoid robot with four moving limbs and a head, built in the United States. His two long legs and arms can move and gesture thanks to a combination of pulleys, springs, carbon fiber rods, and actuators. CHARLI soon will be able to talk as well.

somehow don't like this guy ...

boston dynamics again, kinda scary again.

Arthropods paint by walking on the canvas.

A new way to move in sand. Which makes me think of the biggest challenge ever: path integration while moving on sand!

Theo Jansen is an artist and kinetic sculptor living and working in Holland. He builds large works which resemble skeletons of animals which are able to walk using the wind on the beaches of the Netherlands. His animated works are a fusion of art and engi

Robot self-adapts its gait when limbs are damaged.

Random branches are collected, scanned to 3D, and connected with servos. Then a neural network is trained to control this "robot".

nice article - with related podcast interviewing the former prof of Johannes ... my usual question: can we use it for space :-)

Eventually for damping purposes. Place a payload in it, surrounded by the fluid, and high frequency shocks might be damped. Of course, damping properties might turn out to be not good.

Optimization of locomotion on a range of different bipeds with nice visualisation and funny movie (definitely watch at 3:25 !!) Also simulations at lower/higher gravity

Wow, the two droplets that orbit each other are really cool - as is the explanation!

background piece on Project M, it is being worked on at least it seems so ...

there should be more project like these - when you give a tough deadline and work your heart out to make things happen... look forward to see it walking on the Moon :)

and yet another TO nonsense... And why always Harry Potter, dont't these darn scientists have more imagination or is their intellectual level just as low as being unable to read more complex literature than J.K. Rawling?? btw.: how about this skype session on TO, Leo?

Combine it with touchable holography (search for SIGGRAPH 2009 at youtube) and name it Holosuite 0.1.