Press and Public Media

2013

Mashable: Jumping, Swimming, Climbing Robot Will Blow You Away — Collection of clips including leaping, reactive behaviors, as well as Boston Dynamics and Aqua versions of RHex.
At ICRA 2013, several videos of RHex leaping were released:
- IEEE Spectrum - Automaton: This Robot’s Acrobatic Leaps Are the Coolest Thing You’ll See Today
- Gizmodo: Does This Acrobatic Robot Have Olympic Aspirations?
- Engadget: X-RHex Lite robot leaps across gaps in a single bound
- Dvice: Meet RHex, the parkour robot
- Vsauce: Mind Blow #64
- The Engineer: A series of leaps for robot-kind

The Mechanical Animal:Video about Temple University biologist Tonia Hsieh featuring some gorgeous shots of XRL.
The Daily Pennsylvanian: Engineering lab develops bug-like robots
The Naked Scientist - Interview with Aaron Johnson on tails.
A new tail for XRL was introduced at CLAWAR 2012:
- IEEE Spectrum - Automaton: XRL Hexapod Robot Gets a Tail, Learns to Use It
- Wired - Danger Room: Robot Uses Its Tail To Land On Its Feet, Just Like A Cat
- Phys.org: XRL robot uses tail for easy landing on springy feet
- Engadget: X-RHex Lite robot grows a tail, always lands on its feet
- Huffington Post - Tech: Robots With Tails Can Right Themselves In Mid-Air

IEEE Spectrum - Automaton: XRHex was one of the top 10 videos of the month.
IEEE Spectrum - Automaton: Running Hexapod Gets Fancy New Tunable Legs — Article on EduBot with tunable compliant legs
Singularity Hub: This Robot Can Learn To Run Anywhere, Just Try and Stop It! — Article on a variety of RHex robots
Fast Company: Meet the Half-Wheeled Military Insect Bot of Your Nightmares: X.RHex — Article on XRHex

Discovery News: article on Sandbot ?’s use by our Georgia Tech colleagues
Scientific American: Walkabout: Teaching robots to travel on land and sand — Article on Sandbot ?

The Daily Pennsylvanian: Stair-climbing robots introduce young engineers to Penn — Article on EduBot being used in the classroom