{"id":210093,"date":"2025-03-30T13:18:46","date_gmt":"2025-03-30T18:18:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/scientists-develop-dog-inspired-robot-that-runs-without-motors"},"modified":"2025-03-30T13:18:46","modified_gmt":"2025-03-30T18:18:46","slug":"scientists-develop-dog-inspired-robot-that-runs-without-motors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/scientists-develop-dog-inspired-robot-that-runs-without-motors","title":{"rendered":"Scientists develop dog-inspired robot that runs without motors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WlkeinV9CJ0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Scientists from TU Delft and EPFL have created a quadruped robot capable of running like a dog without the need for motors. This achievement, a product of combining innovative mechanics with data-driven technology, was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s42256-025-00988-x\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in <i>Nature Machine Intelligence<\/i> and could pave the way for energy-efficient robotics.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCommercial quadruped robots are becoming more common, but their energy inefficiency limits their operating time,\u201d explains Cosimo Della Santina, assistant professor at TU Delft. \u201cOur goal was to address this issue by optimizing the robot\u2019s mechanics by mimicking the efficiency of biological systems.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists from TU Delft and EPFL have created a quadruped robot capable of running like a dog without the need for motors. This achievement, a product of combining innovative mechanics with data-driven technology, was published in Nature Machine Intelligence and could pave the way for energy-efficient robotics. \u201cCommercial quadruped robots are becoming more common, but [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-210093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210093\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}