bipedal
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Schaeffler's goal is to develop components that allow for highly energy efficient, well-controlled movement, which is essential for competent bipedal robots to move and work safely alongside humans.
From BBC • Feb. 5, 2026
By looking at chimps, which along with bonobos are humans' closest living relatives, perhaps we "can help confirm some of the hypotheses about how those really early hominins, or bipedal apes, behaved", Pruetz said.
From Barron's • Jan. 15, 2026
Humanoids have an obvious appeal: bipedal, with flexible joints, robots like Optimus are designed to function more easily in spaces meant for humans.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 3, 2026
As these herbivores turned into giants, so did the bipedal theropods that hunted them.
From Science Magazine • Nov. 27, 2024
He was about twenty feet tall—typical giant height—with a humanoid upper body, and scaly reptilian legs, like a bipedal dinosaur.
From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan
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