The cheetah is off the leash! Researchers at MIT have built a four-legged robot that runs like the super-fast spotted feline and can even run on its own power, off a treadmill. The robot has now been ...

Animal Ark's traditional cheetah run will offer participants a close-up look at the world's fastest land mammal on Sept. 21 when the annual Out of Africa fundraising run presents cheetah expert Mary ...

Four-legged robots have come a long way in the last decade. We've seen them learn to walk, jump and even climb stairs. While these are all impressive tasks that these robotic systems have successfully ...

When a cheetah runs, there's plenty of motion. After all, the animal can crack speeds of 60 miles per hour when it's sprinting after prey, making it the fastest land animal in the world. But one thing ...

Engineers at Boston Dynamics don't yet have their four-legged robot running anywhere close to the speed of a cheetah (75 miles per hour), or even sprinter Usain Bolt (27 mph) for that matter, but it's ...

THE day’s feature attraction, a female cheetah named Karoo, has just zipped down the dirt track at full throttle in a blur of orange and black. Now, it’s Sven’s turn. Sven is a shaggy golden retriever ...

The team recently took the robot for a test run on MIT's Killian Court, where it bounded across the grass at a steady clip. In experiments on an indoor track, the robot sprinted up to 10 mph, even ...

It’s a blur, but you really don’t want to seen this thing coming for you anyway. It’s the latest look at what the folks at Boston Dynamics have been working on under a DARPA contract. They call it the ...