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 ...

A lot of robots in development are able to perform amazing feats in a laboratory setting when they’ve got plenty of tethers and cables keeping them perpetually powered and safe. The real test of their ...

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 ...

Beating a record held since 1989, DARPA's Cheetah takes the land speed record for legged robots. According to an announcement from the Defence Advanced Research projects Agency (DARPA), MIT's record ...

MIT scientists have trained a robotic cheetah to be able to jump over hurdles. The robot uses complex technologies to be able to plan out its path and ready up to jump, in the same way humans do. It ...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology's robotic cheetah is back and it's got a new trick up its sleeve. MIT released video of its now famous robot landing a series of running ...

Researchers at the Boston Dynamics have done it again, setting the record for the fastest running robot on four legs. The last fastest four-legged robot set the record in 1981 with running speed of 13 ...

The Pentagon's main research agency has created the fastest-ever land robot, named "Cheetah," which can gallop at a speed of 18 miles (29 kilometers) per hour, scientists said Tuesday. The headless ...

DARPA’s “Cheetah” robot set a new land speed record for legged robots, galloping at 18 miles per hour, topping the previous record of 13.1 miles per hour set in 1989. The robot’s movements are ...