Skaff had always been interested in making toy robots. “It’s the best way to introduce robotics to the public,” he says. “And toys allow you unlimited creativity.” RHex, however, wasn’t a toy. It was ...

In a sign of things to come, early 2020 brought us the robot “spy” gorilla, a mechanical creature used by the BBC’s Spy In The Wild to record human-free nature footage. Months later, the world ...