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Duke's 20-Leg Argus Robot Scores 0.91 Isotropy, Moves Freely

5/28/2026

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Boyuan Chen and Duke University in Durham, North Carolina unveiled Argus, a 20-leg robot that moves freely.
Argus, with leg-mounted cameras and no fixed front or back, crossed beaches, climbed walls, remained stable after pushes and functional despite a motor or leg failure.
Argus scored 0.91 on an isotropy scale, above the sub-0.6 scores of robots, in a study published on Wednesday in Science Robotics with Jiaxun Liu as co-author.

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Boyuan Chen and Duke University in Durham, North Carolina unveiled Argus, a 20-leg robot that moves freely.
Argus, with leg-mounted cameras and no fixed front or back, crossed beaches, climbed walls, remained stable after pushes and functional despite a motor or leg failure.
Argus scored 0.91 on an isotropy scale, above the sub-0.6 scores of robots, in a study published on Wednesday in Science Robotics with Jiaxun Liu as co-author.