A team at ETH Zurich has demonstrated an AI-powered legged robot capable of autonomously playing badminton against human opponents. Using a control system based on reinforcement learning, the robot ...

A team of engineers at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETH Zurich) has developed a four-legged ANYmal robot that can play badminton with a human. The researchers are using ...

We've seen robot dogs run up hills with luggage, and help fight fires. Now, researchers at Switzerland's ETH Zurich are putting these mechanical mutts through their paces on the badminton court, ...

Ten years ago, they were barely able to move. Today, the autonomous walking robots developed by Marco Hutter and his team are disrupting entire fields. In the future, these highly mobile robots could ...

Robots like Atlas, Spot, and Stretch have amazed people with natural, life-like agility and body balance. What they were lacking, though, was a way to quickly connect this natural movement to ...

ETH Zurich researchers have pushed their quadruped robot, ANYmal, into new territory: the badminton court. A new video released by the university shows the four-legged robot attempting to return shots ...

Roboticists at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETH Zurich) have taught the four-legged robot dog ANYMal from ANYbotics to climb a standard ladder. This is a problem that has so ...

This year's RobotX Innovation Day offered specialist lectures, presentations by spin-offs and an exhibition with technologies for various areas of application. Researchers from the ETH Centre for ...