Cubli is a cube-shaped robot that can jump up, balance on a single corner and "walk" itself across a desk, all using off-the-shelf parts. Michelle Starr is CNET's science editor, and she hopes to get ...

In a test of 60 jumps, the robot made a perfectly controlled landing 52 times, sat back on its "heel" five times, and fell ...

Locomotion makes things move, and certain forms of locomotion make them move better than others. Those more effective types of locomotion change depending on the environment, which is even more true ...