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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...