Legged robot locomotion
Control of quadruped and multi-legged robots moving across varied terrain. Every Robotics Weekly story on legged robot locomotion, newest first. 8 stories since September 2026.
- Spider-like welding robot climbs shipyard walls
Diden Robotics built a legged welder for the inside of ships, and almost nothing about its autonomy is public.
- TactileStep accepted to CoRL 2026, targets foot contact
The work focuses on what happens when a humanoid foot meets the ground, not on the walking controller around it.
- Humanoid soccer goes outdoors with no instrumentation
Pulkit Agrawal says the policy dribbles, passes, turns and scores after simulation training alone.
- Unitree G1 dribbles a soccer ball using only onboard LiDAR
No motion capture, no external tracking, and a safety tether that Hong says stays slack.
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- ETH Zurich robot hand walks around on its own fingers
No wheels, no legs, no separate drive mechanism, and the power and compute ride onboard.
- Agility's Digit 5 drops the bird legs, claims 22.7 kg lifts
New legs, a two-finger gripper and a safety controller that can cut motor power, all of it company spec for now.
- ETH Zurich humanoid swings across monkey bars on raw lidar
The policy skips the terrain map entirely and feeds sparse lidar returns straight into an attention encoder.
- Malik dares LLM robotics fans to control a legged robot
A public challenge over whether a token-generating model belongs anywhere near a robot's control loop.
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