Back in June the world got its first glimpse of the iStruct, a robot ape developed at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) and the University of Bremen. We predicted that in ...

What took humans millions of years to achieve, Germany's robotic ape has done in moments, with a research project into artificial spines showing how a quadrupedal 'bot can evolve into a bipedal one.

As part of a project called iStruct, German researchers at the DFKI (the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence) have created an awesome looking robot ape. The robot ape is a cross between ...

"It should be possible to stand in a variety of ways if there is a more natural form of feet" so that the German Research Center (DFKI), which studies artificial intelligence, has developed a ...

The iStruct robot demonstrator tests technologies that might be used in robot space explorers ...

Remember that iStruct robotic ape? It was developed by Germany’s DFKI to presumably bring us one step closer to a cyborg version of Planet of the Apes. Well, it’s unfortunately advancing faster than ...

Clambering across an artificial crater, the robot’s gait is unmistakable - it looks as if Germany’s robot experts have been inspired by Planet of the Apes. The iStruct robot lumbers across landscapes ...