Parkour, the free-wheeling outdoor sport of vaulting, bouncing, jumping and flipping through the urban jungle, has inspired a new breed of indoor fitness centers where buildings are boxes, sidewalks ...

Eleven-year-old Christian Bandel uses one arm to spring over a vault during a parkour class held at Lawrence Gymnastics Academy, 4930 Legends Dr. on Sunday, May 17, 2015. Across the globe, the ...

To some of us, being efficient means not getting caught behind a group of school children or tourists in line for the T. To parkour athletes, it’s about a whole lot more than that. “Parkour is a ...

It looks like something out of a ninja movie. The extreme sport known as parkour involves vaulting high obstacles, leaping from rooftop to rooftop and literally bouncing off the walls. It’s all about ...

Ever wish you could tap into your inner warrior strength? Tom Jacobson, a fifth-year computer engineering student, vaults over benches, runs across walls and balances rails—all for fun with ...

Humanoid robots, robotic systems with a human-like body structure, have the potential of tackling various real-world tasks that are currently being completed by humans. In recent years, many robotics ...