Terrifying moment a cheetah pounces on open-roof safari truck with tourists inside. Tense video from the Masai Mara National Reserve in Kenya captured the moment a cheetah leapt onto a truck full of ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Cheetahs are known for their speed, but the robotic Cheetah 2 ...

While it is completely natural for human beings and other animals to walk and jump, replicating those processes robotically is one of technology’s greatest challenges. Which makes teaching a robotic ...

(Nanowerk News) In a leap for robot development, the MIT researchers who built a robotic cheetah have now trained it to see and jump over hurdles as it runs — making this the first four-legged robot ...

MIT researchers' previously shown ‘cheetah-bot,’ a robot that resembles — you guessed it — the fastest land animal on earth, can run up to 10 mph. The robot's latest enhancements, however, have ...

What MIT’s robotic cheetah has just achieved is as impressive as it is scary—researchers at the prestigious technology university have trained a robot to see and jump hurdles as it runs, making it the ...

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 ...

You’re lucky if on an African safari you get a close encounter with an animal. But tourists in Masai Mara National Reserve, Kenya got a little too close for comfort to a cheetah who decided to take a ...

Researchers over at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have spent the better part of the last few years building a mechanical quadruped capable of not only running at a fast pace, but also ...

Some of you might remember seeing the (somewhat terrifying) video of one of the world’s first fully-functional, four-legged robots we posted about not too long ago. Or you may remember another post ...