This skeleton robot salamander just wiggled its way into my heart

Show me an animal that waddles and I'm immediately delighted. Show me a robot that waddles and is also a skeleton and I may as well have died and gone to heaven. Enter — wiggling gently with a slightly stupid grin on its skull-like face — the latest robotic creation from the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland: the Pleurobot.
Pleurobot is a robotic investigation into the walking gait of Pleurodeles waltl; a type of salamander