How to Use biped in a Sentence

biped

noun
  • Most of the footprints are elongated and made by bipeds.
    CBS News, 16 Dec. 2025
  • The footage shows a large, hairy biped walking across a hillside before squatting in the sagebrush.
    Dac Collins, Outdoor Life, 10 Oct. 2023
  • My character—an aquatic, half-fish biped known as a kuo-toa—died, but was revived with some special herbs.
    Ed Park, The New Yorker, 31 Mar. 2023
  • Eugenides’s miserable bipeds want to behave well but there are so many obstacles in their way.
    Dwight Garner, New York Times, 3 Oct. 2017
  • The mold shapes itself into a tall biped that resembles a stick figure or distorted skeleton.
    Dani Di Placido, Forbes.com, 31 May 2026
  • That transition from stable quadruped to confident biped took a long time as new members of the human family tree evolved.
    Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 5 July 2018
  • What’s unique about this research is that it’s intended to be applied to any quadruped at all—with some very minor hardware, your quadruped can become a biped, too.
    IEEE Spectrum, 8 Mar. 2023
  • Only a few characters recur, but these are essentially the same unlucky bipeds, sometimes glimpsed a few decades later.
    Dwight Garner, New York Times, 15 Jan. 2018
  • Sightings of a furry, upright biped and reports of beastly footprints have been reported from as far afield as the Himalayas.
    Lauren Kent, Outside Online, 11 Aug. 2022
  • These usually use a car's onboard camera system and computer vision algorithms to detect bipeds in the field of view.
    Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 7 Oct. 2019
  • Some things, like the general shape of our femurs, are the product of generations of evolution, which selected the traits that were most useful for bipeds.
    Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 30 Mar. 2020
  • The abdominal muscles in bipeds are used to stabilize the body for upright mobility — sitting up, bending, etc.
    Bethy Squires, Vulture, 6 Mar. 2026
  • Now, of course, Boston Dynamics is the authority in legged robots, with its Atlas biped and Spot quadruped.
    IEEE Spectrum, 31 July 2023
  • Once inside, even the tallest biped will find the rear executive-lounge-style seats of the Maybach to be among the most comfortable this side of airborne First Class.
    Robert Ross, Robb Report, 27 June 2023
  • Lucy lived over 3 million years ago and her remains helped scientists establish that humans became bipeds, that is, walked upright, much earlier than previously thought.
    Daniel R. Taylor, Philly.com, 13 Apr. 2018
  • But Boston Dynamics has since that time turned Atlas into a marvel that can do backflips, far outpacing other bipeds that still have a hard time walking.
    Matt Simon, WIRED, 17 May 2018
  • Gordon covers details for bipeds, quads, and hexapods (six legs), and misses nothing — balance, degrees of freedom, material, components (kit and hand-built), control, and gait to name a few.
    James Floyd Kelly, WIRED, 3 Nov. 2011
  • Or maybe hobbits had descended from Australopithecus afarensis — Lucy’s kin — since that species was a highly adaptable biped that spread over great masses of African land.
    Jill Neimark, Discover Magazine, 28 July 2011
  • Machines like Cassie the biped or SpotMini the robot dog are quickly mastering locomotion, thanks to line after line of meticulous code.
    Matt Simon, WIRED, 18 May 2018
  • Science Nothing in robotics is as unintentionally hilarious as watching a biped fall.
    Matt Simon, WIRED, 25 Apr. 2018
  • Yet the magazine continues to explore, optimistically, the challenges and discoveries that promise to shape the lives of bipeds, quadrupeds and every other creature on Earth.
    Ted Scheinman, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Mar. 2020
  • Agile hybrid biped The large-scale bipedal robot demonstrates how a hybrid mechanical design can push humanoid locomotion toward greater agility, strength, and efficiency.
    Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 19 Jan. 2026
  • This bird-like biped, like many of the robots in Star Wars, was a curious, plucky and courageous little character, communicating mainly in R2D2-like bleeps and bloops.
    New Atlas, 22 July 2024
  • The juxtaposition — robust muscleman and gawky fowl — is a wonderfully sarcastic rebuke to Plato’s description of humans as featherless bipeds.
    Christopher Knight, latimes.com, 5 July 2018
  • Beyond that, Kalouche has plans to integrate the GOAT leg into a variety of different robot morphologies, including monopods, bipeds, tripods, and that quadruped in the rendering above.
    IEEE Spectrum, 16 Aug. 2016
  • Humanoid endures freeze Unitree has staged a high-profile demonstration of its G1 humanoid robot’s ability to operate in some of the harshest natural conditions on Earth, sending the biped into the deep freeze of China’s far northwest.
    Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 3 Feb. 2026
  • But whatever your awareness level regarding the legendary bipeds, Marq Evans’ new documentary is a fascinating exploration of a very specific piece of Americana, centering on a colorful collection of aging cowboys in Yakima, Washington.
    Sheri Linden, HollywoodReporter, 12 Mar. 2026

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