as in animal
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an animal that has four feet
Horses and cows are quadrupeds.
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Recent Examples of quadruped
The new video is a clear signal of where Pudu believes industrial quadruped robots are headed.
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Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 5 Jan. 2026
The final event of the DARPA Triage Challenge will take place in November, and Team Chiron from Carnegie Mellon University will be competing, using a squad of quadruped robots and drones.
—IEEE Spectrum, 31 Dec. 2025
The quadruped is currently deployed at car manufacturing sites and in hazardous industrial areas around the world.
—Mack Degeurin, Popular Science, 3 Sep. 2025
To test the quadruped and learn how to adapt them for extraterrestrial environments, in August 2025, the research team took a second trip to White Sands National Park in New Mexico to test the quadruped in rugged terrrain most similiar to Mars.
—Jennifer Kite-Powell, Forbes.com, 22 Aug. 2025
More Kent Nishimura/AP A robotic quadruped, also known as a robot dog, during the US Army's 250th Anniversary Parade in Washington, DC, US, on Saturday, June 14, 2025.
—Hannah Parry, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 June 2025
Kawasaki Which is not to say that ride-on quadrupeds aren't going to be a thing.
—New Atlas, 6 Apr. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for quadruped
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Johnson said that the animal caused extensive damage to his home, costing tens of thousands of dollars.—
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Deputies arrested Sargent on Thursday on two felony animal-cruelty counts and one misdemeanor count.—
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David Bowie personally appears on the cover of 24 of his solo albums, depicting himself as a bowl-cut heartthrob, an androgynous blond, a space alien in human disguise, a cigarette-smoking lounge creature, a sideways pair of legs, and an oddly undersized boxer.—
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Not to mention the titular bugs, a swarm of blood-invading creatures discovered by her new lover, the mysterious drifter Peter Evans (Namir Smallwood).—
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“Quadruped.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/quadruped. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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