Quadruped robot built to run a marathon on a single battery charge published in Nature
ChongZzZhang · x · 2026-09-24
A KAIST team led by Jemin Hwangbo published a Nature paper on a quadruped robot designed to complete a full marathon on a single battery charge. The work targets the endurance bottleneck limiting real-world legged robot deployment in disaster rescue and mountainous operations, and is being hailed as a serious legged-robotics milestone in a top journal.
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