How to Use quadruped in a Sentence
quadruped
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The quadruped bot has four legs that can be equipped with wheels instead of conventional foot pads.
—New Atlas, 3 Sep. 2025
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Start from a quadruped position (on all fours) with your hands under your shoulders and knees under your hips.
—Jakob Roze, Health, 5 Feb. 2026
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Unitree's latest intrepid quadruped is tough, durable, fast and agile, and is ready for action.
—New Atlas, 6 Aug. 2025
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Downward Dog Start in a quadruped position.
—Olivia McIntosh, Martha Stewart, 20 Jan. 2026
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Some pretty awesome quadruped parkour here—haven’t seen the wall running before.
—IEEE Spectrum, 30 May 2025
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Unlike most quadrupeds, CARA doesn’t use any gears or pulleys.
—IEEE Spectrum, 25 July 2025
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Interdiction of humans, that is, not quadrupeds.
—Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 30 Mar. 2026
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The August trip to White Sands showed the quadruped could act autonomously.
—Jennifer Kite-Powell, Forbes.com, 22 Aug. 2025
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All of which holds promise for a nimble, capable quadruped robot worker.
—New Atlas, 6 Aug. 2025
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And the quadruped includes an onboard speaker and microphone array.
—New Atlas, 6 Aug. 2025
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The lineup includes three humanoids and one quadruped designed for real-world deployment.
—Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 16 Feb. 2026
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The new video is a clear signal of where Pudu believes industrial quadruped robots are headed.
—Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 5 Jan. 2026
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Each environment teaches the quadruped something new.
—Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 22 Aug. 2025
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This is another quadruped exercise that works the glutes, improving the stability and strength of the hip joint.
—Jakob Roze, Health, 19 Aug. 2025
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Unlike wheeled or quadruped robots, humanoids need to replicate the inherently unstable process of bipedal running.
—Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 18 Mar. 2026
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Most existing quadruped robots use similar fore and hind leg configurations.
—Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 11 Feb. 2026
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BrainPack is the same system used in OpenMind’s recent demonstrations of self-charging quadrupeds.
—Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 22 Nov. 2025
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The quadruped is currently deployed at car manufacturing sites and in hazardous industrial areas around the world.
—Mack Degeurin, Popular Science, 3 Sep. 2025
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Prices typically range from about $5,000 for quadrupeds to $20,000 for humanoids.
—Jennifer Jolly, USA Today, 4 Feb. 2026
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Other applications might include robotics, such as adaptive robotic quadrupeds.
—Shirl Leigh may 22, New Atlas, 22 May 2026
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According to Skyborne, the quadruped platform is designed for fast deployment, becoming mission-ready within minutes.
—Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 14 May 2026
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Power, speed, payload balance The quadruped demonstrates notable mobility metrics.
—Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 24 Feb. 2026
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The system combines a quadruped robot equipped with a quadrupole mass spectrometer and a modular autonomy stack, enabling long-distance missions in rough volcanic terrain.
—IEEE Spectrum, 15 Jan. 2026
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The exploit impacts Unitree’s Go2 and B2 quadrupeds and G1 and H1 humanoids.
—IEEE Spectrum, 25 Sep. 2025
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Dogs can bark, but robots can talk back Even the most advanced quadruped robot on the market today can’t match a real dog’s innate sense of smell or its highly developed navigational instincts.
—Mack Degeurin, Popular Science, 11 Sep. 2025
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In 2025, the company set a quadruped speed record with its Black Panther robot, which exceeded 10 metres per second.
—Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 4 Feb. 2026
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The company also released D1, a quadruped robot built for outdoor mobility, patrol, and load-carrying support.
—John Koetsier, Forbes.com, 5 Jan. 2026
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What stands out is not just the ability to climb stairs, something already demonstrated by other quadruped robots, but the speed and fluidity with which the D5 switches between locomotion modes.
—Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 5 Jan. 2026
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Childs Pose Stretch Begin in quadruped position (on all fours, with your hands under your shoulders, and your knees directly under your hips), then sit back into your hips, bringing your hips toward your heels.
—Olivia McIntosh, Martha Stewart, 20 Jan. 2026
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There’s a full-size humanoid designed for public and commercial spaces, a smaller humanoid for home and multi use, and a quadruped robot for security, inspection, and educational settings.
—Jennifer Jolly, USA Today, 4 Feb. 2026
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