quadruped

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Recent Examples of quadruped The system’s Targeting Electronics Optical Box (TEOB) provides onboard computing for day and night operations, allowing the quadruped to identify, track, and engage multiple targets with high precision at extended ranges. Kapil Kajal, Interesting Engineering, 15 Oct. 2025 The exploit impacts Unitree’s Go2 and B2 quadrupeds and G1 and H1 humanoids. IEEE Spectrum, 25 Sep. 2025 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 The quadruped bot has four legs that can be equipped with wheels instead of conventional foot pads. New Atlas, 3 Sep. 2025 To test the quadruped and learn how to adapt them for extraterrestrial environments, in August 2025, the research team took a second trip to White Sands National Park in New Mexico to test the quadruped in rugged terrrain most similiar to Mars. Jennifer Kite-Powell, Forbes.com, 22 Aug. 2025 This is another quadruped exercise that works the glutes, improving the stability and strength of the hip joint. Jakob Roze, Health, 19 Aug. 2025 More Kent Nishimura/AP A robotic quadruped, also known as a robot dog, during the US Army's 250th Anniversary Parade in Washington, DC, US, on Saturday, June 14, 2025. Hannah Parry, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 June 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for quadruped
Noun
  • How did Indigenous people in North America interpret fossils of dinosaurs and other long-extinct animals?
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 22 Oct. 2025
  • His teachers corrected his posture and his hands; the angle of the arms and the way the wrist releases into the top of the drum, or drum head which usually is made from animal skin.
    Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 22 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The creatures are scavengers feeding on the seafloor and plankton as well as algae and waste particles.
    Ashley J. DiMella, FOXNews.com, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Then, once your stay is over, guests hop right back on that glacier ferry for one more magical ride back to real life, but not before all those arctic creatures come out to wave goodbye.
    Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 22 Oct. 2025

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“Quadruped.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/quadruped. Accessed 28 Oct. 2025.

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