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Researchers at Bioinspired Robotics and Design Lab, UC San Diego created a fully 3D-printed, six-legged robot that walks using compressed air. It has no electronics, motors, or batteries—just soft actuators powered by gas. Tested on various terrains, it operates continuously with a steady air supply.

Created at Bioinspired Robotics and Design Lab, UC San Diego, this low-cost robot could help explore extreme or dangerous environments

Meet the 3D-printed robot that walks without electronics

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Get your weekly dose of amazing robot videos from IEEE Spectrum Robotics! Discover the latest in robotics, from a $20 3D-printed robot to a cooking robot and a hybrid aerial-terrestrial quadruped. Why do we want humanoid robots to walk like humans? Plus, check out upcoming robotics events worldwide.

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Revolute Robotics has created a new "hamster-wheel" style robot that can roam on different terrains, move omnidirectionally can can even fly.

Meet the hamster ball robot that can fly and crawl

Clearpath Robotics has released all the design files for the PR2 robot, a mobile manipulator created by Willow Garage.

Full set of design files released for PR2 robot

Created by the Dynamic Locomotion Group at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems (MPI-IS), BirdBot serves two purposes: Demonstrating a more efficient bipedal robot design, and furthering our understanding of how birds' legs work.

BirdBot, a 3D-printed bipedal robot, offers major efficiency gains through avian biomimicry

The robot could more easily study delicate underwater environments

Robot Gets Up Close to the Seabed Without Disturbing It

Every quarter, UC San Diego engineers Joshua Pelz and Luca De Vivo, as well as prosthetics specialist Herb Barrack, travel to Ensenada, Mexico, where they work with amputees to provide free, 3D-printed, custom-made prostheses.