An artificial intelligence (AI) system that enables a four-legged robot to adapt its gait to varied, unfamiliar terrain, just like a real animal, has been developed by researchers at UCL and the University of Leeds. For the study, published in Nature Machine Intelligence , the researchers took inspiration from the animal kingdom to teach the robot to navigate terrain that it had never seen before. This included agile four-legged animals such as dogs, cats and horses, which adapt their movements