ExtremeTech

MIT's Cheetah robot is let off its leash, can now run and jump silently across fields

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 ...
CNET

Hide! MIT's robotic cheetah no longer needs a leash

Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news with a twist for CNET. When not wallowing in weird gear and iPad apps for cats, she can be found tinkering with her 1956 DeSoto. Watch ...
Futurism

Oh Great, MIT Has Taught Its Robotic Cheetah to Leap

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 ...
ExtremeTech

MIT's Mini Cheetah Robot Can Do Backflips

Engineers at MIT have created a plethora of robots in recent years from machines that see with their feet to a cheetah automaton that can run through the grass. Now ...
Futurism

MIT's Robot Cheetah Looks Hilariously Awkward Teaching Itself to Run

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 ...
techtimes

MIT Mini Cheetah Robot Speed Enhancement Made Possible, Thanks to New Simulation Training—Similar to 'Matrix?'

After hours of testing, I'm thrilled to announce that you can now run the MIT Mini Cheetah in Gazebo using https://t.co/2URXjJ01j6. #goROS pic.twitter.com/fp344m7VbQ ...
BGR

MIT Used Simulations To Teach A Robot To Run, And The Results Are Hilarious

Scientists at MIT managed to teach a robot to run using machine learning. Normally robots are taught how to move across difficult terrain by preprogramming it into their code. This time, though, the ...
Yahoo

MIT’s Frighteningly Fast Robot Cheetah Uses AI to Break Speed Records

The robotic cheetah developed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) just keeps getting more advanced. Since its debut in 2015, the four-legged, dog-sized robot known as “Mini Cheetah” has ...
ZDNet

How MIT's robot Cheetah got its speed

There's a new version of a very quick quadrupedal robot from MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL). While four-legged robots have garnered no end of attention over the ...
Commercial Integrator

MIT Mini Cheetah Robot Can Backflip. But it Also Has Potential as a Monitoring Solution

Boston is a big city for robotics right now. Remember the viral Vine video of a robotic dog having some issues? That came from Boston Dynamics. But they’re seeing some robotic animal competition now ...
techtimes

'Robotic Mini Cheetah': MIT Breaks Speed Record After Creating A 'Self-Taught' Blind Robot to Walk

Although not nearly holding a Usain Bolt speed, MIT's Biomimetics Lab recently surpassed the speed record for a robotic Mini Cheetah. However, it is worth noting that the MIT researchers did not teach ...
Hackaday

DIY Baby MIT Cheetah Robot

3D printers have become a staple in most makerspaces these days, enabling hackers to rapidly produce simple mechanical prototypes without the need for a dedicated machine shop. We’ve seen many ...