Created by a team of eight engineering bachelor students at Switzerland's ETH Zurich research institute, the quadruped robot is inspired by the wall- and ceiling-climbing capabilities of the gecko.

Robot humanoids are cool, but also a bit hard to make work as they only have two legs to stand on. Four-legged robots can be a bit more approachable. The Dingo Quadruped aims to be just such an ope… ...

Instead, making a flying spider involves equipping it with more active equipment. The problem is that just packing a multi-legged robot with enough servo motors and batteries to crawl around on ...

“Thermonator is the first-ever flamethrower-wielding robot dog. This quadruped is coupled with the ARC Flamethrower to deliver on-demand fire anywhere!” the company’s website excitedly says.

We’ve seen how a quadruped robot dog can dribble a ball, climb walls, run on sand, and open doors with its “paws.” The latest test isn’t that of motion, necessarily, but of balance.