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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The robotic cheetah MIT has been working on can now autonomously detect and jump over obstacles while running at 5 miles per hour. MIT’s crazy and amazing robotic cheetah has learned a new trick. Now, ...

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 ...

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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, ...

Move over, Cristiano Ronaldo. You've got competition. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) recently unveiled a new video of its Mini Cheetah robot, demonstrating that the four-legged ...

Speed and agility are hallmarks of the cheetah: the big predator is the fastest land animal on earth, able to accelerate to 60 miles per hour in just a few seconds. As it ramps up to top speed, a ...

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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 ...