What’s being cooked up at this new Caltech robotics lab? How about autonomous robot hikers, flying ambulances

In the basement of Caltech’s Gates-Thomas building, a bipedal robot saunters on a treadmill, while nearby students show off an intelligent prosthetic leg and a hopping contraption designed for a secretive partnership with Disney.
Here in the new Advanced Mobility Lab, the future is autonomy, the merger of the “mind and body,” where robots can traverse complex environments and respond to unexpected changes without human aid.
The students in the lab come from different discipline