When the ‘cheetah-bot’ runs, it bounds with a grace and speed that resembles its animal namesake. The four-legged MIT-designed robot weighs almost as much as its feline counterpart and now researchers ...

MIT's Cheetah robot has finally been let off the leash -- and boy can it run. Watch as it bounds across a grass field, and even jumps over a hurdle. It isn't quite up to the evolutionary magnificence ...

If a robot that can run, jump and climb isn't your thing, maybe one that can do backflips is. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) recently unveiled a new video of its Mini Cheetah robot, ...

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The MIT engineers are at it again — and this time, they’ve created a robotic cheetah that knows how to leap. “In those settings, you need to use vision in order to avoid failure,” Gabriel Margolis, a ...

MIT’s long-jumping, back-flipping mini cheetah is at it again — and this time, it’s taught itself how to run. The engineers behind the robot released a video showcasing its new skills on Thursday. In ...

The robotic cheetah MIT has been working on can now autonomously detect and jump over obstacles while running at 5 miles per hour. Anthony Domanico CNET freelancer Anthony Domanico is passionate about ...

An ongoing robotics project at MIT aiming to recreate the gait of a cheetah is sharing a new video showing off the latest progress. There's a long way to go before anyone would call it catlike, but it ...

Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have announced the latest developments in their robotic cheetah project. The project aims to provide insights into how cheetahs can move ...

It may someday do work that's impossible for humans. The “blind” Cheetah 3 robot can climb stairs, jump on a desk and shove, thanks to new algorithms developed by researchers at the Massachusetts ...

For years, robots have been rendering humans’ jobs obsolete. Now, they’re about to do the same thing to cheetahs. In the bowels of MIT’s engineering department, researchers have ushered a new creature ...