Interesting Engineering

Walk Me: Toyota stuns world with robot chair that walks, climbs, and folds itself

Toyota’s Walk Me is a robotic chair with legs that walk, climb, and fold, redefining mobility at the Japan Mobility Show 2025 ...

Inside the glass-walled Tesla lab where workers train the Optimus robot to act like a human

Have you ever wanted to wipe down a table hundreds of times while Elon Musk watches? Training Tesla's humanoid robot might be the job for you.
Interesting Engineering

7 ‘secret’ systems that make humanoid robots think, walk and work like humans

How advanced actuators, compliance control, and real-time planning create capable, safe humanoid collaborators.

Nike partners with robotics company to create world's first motor-powered footwear system

Nike unveils Project Amplify, revolutionary motorized shoes developed with Dephy that add powered assistance to every step ...
IEEE

Benchmarking Different QP Formulations and Solvers for Dynamic Quadrupedal Walking

Abstract: Quadratic Programs (QPs) are widely used in the control of walking robots, especially in Model Predictive Control (MPC) and Whole-Body Control (WBC). In both cases, the controller design ...