Scientists may have cracked the case of whether a seven-million-year-old fossil could walk upright. A new study found strong ...

A seven-million-year-old fossil may mark the moment our ancestors first stood up and walked.

One of the biggest questions in human evolution asks why humans became habitually bipedal about 7 million years ago. Most of our primate cousins do well walking quadrupedally and switch to two legs ...

A long-running and bitterly fought dispute over whether the earliest known hominin had a knuckle-walking gait, like chimpanzees, or walked upright, like humans, may have been settled – but not ...

In recent decades, scientists have debated whether a seven-million-year-old fossil was bipedal—a trait that would make it the ...

The oldest ancestor of humans may be a seven-million-year-old ape, which started walking upright two million years earlier than other hominids. Sahelanthropus tchadensis was first discovered in 2002, ...

If the thought of a two-legged robot chasing you down in the streets keeps you up at night, then you can sleep easy … for now. A droid named Cassie has set a Guinness World Record for the 100-meter ...

Cassie ran the distance in 24.73 seconds. ‘This may be the first bipedal robot to learn to run, but it won’t be the last.’ Cassie ran the distance in 24.73 seconds. ‘This may be the first bipedal ...

Big deal, I could do that too if I had propellers for arms Big deal, I could do that too if I had propellers for arms Just like a bird, LEONARDO can both walk and fly LEONARDO is a pleasingly choppy ...

As Amazon builds up its robotic workforce, we’re seeing everything from squat and goofy to humanoid and somewhat intimidating. The Amazon Astro (and its doomed Business version) putters around with a ...

Yesterday, Amazon announced that Agility Robotics is one of the five initial startups benefitting from the company’s $1 billion innovation fund. If I had to guess, I’d say that meant the retail giant ...

A bipedal robot named Cassie has established a Guinness World Record for the 100-meter dash. Despite not having the same level of lightning-quick speed as the best athletes in the world, it is a ...