Musculoskeletal Robot Dog Flexes Like the Real Thing

Musculoskeletal Robot Dog Flexes Like the Real Thing

Engineers at Tokyo’s Suzumori Endo Robotics Lab have created a slightly creepy four-legged robot that moves with the same ease and fluidity as a dog running or jumping. The researchers refer to it as a Canine Musculoskeletal Robot, which is a quite appropriate name, given what the robot is capable of. They designed it to [...]

This Robot Dog Looks Like a Dog, or At Least a Dog's Muscles and Bones

Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion.ICRA 2026: 1–5 June 2026, VIENNAEnjoy today’s videos! Suzumori Endo Lab, Science Tokyo has developed a dog musculoskeletal robot using thin McKibben muscles. This robot mimics the flexible “hammock-like” s…