In a bid to study how humans learn to walk from stumbling, researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems (MPI-IS) in Germany built a four-legged robot dog. They equipped the robot dog with an artificial spinal cord and observed that it learned to walk in just an hour.

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