Troody the baby red kangaroo is one of the animal stars of The Zoo, Animal Planet's show about New York City's Bronx Zoo Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since ...

Modeled after the Troodon dinosaur, Troody is the brainchild of Peter Dilworth, MIT student. Six years in development, Troody can walk, sit and run. (This video mostly shows walking.) 1.5 feet tall ...

Clink. Clink. Troody, a small robot dinosaur, walks across Peter Dilworth 's desk, jangling as if she has loose change in her pockets. Dilworth, Troody's creator, hopes the pigeon-sized robot will be ...

To the high-pitched hissing sound of electric servos, Troody slowly tilts forward. Fourteen tiny motors in her limbs begin to hum as her shins lift up from her feet. She stretches her legs and rises ...

For the first time, a two-legged, nonhumanoid robot has walked completely on its own, says the machine’s inventor. For the past 5 years, Peter Dilworth of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has ...

If Peter Dilworth gets his wish, children may one day be able to view walking-and perhaps running-3-D re-creations of small dinosaurs. His principal motivation: the lifelike behavior of the creatures, ...

Troody is her own woman. Keepers at New York City's Bronx Zoo decided to hand-rear the red kangaroo joey, originally from the Nashville Zoo, after Troody's mother rejected her. Troody is just one of ...