We know that Boston Dynamics is keen onfour-legged robots, evencreating a cheetahof its very own.
So is the EPFL in Switzerland; itsCheetah-Cubhas been in development since 2008 at the Biorobotics Laboratory.
Teaching a quadruped robot to walk can be a tricky business, though.
Enter theItalian Institute of Technology(IIT).
It also developed transitional movements, so that the robot could move between each gait smoothly.
The results were varied.