Researchers have built a robot cheetah that can outpace its animal counterparts in running efficiency by using light-weight motors and regenerating part of the energy used for walking. A 70-pound ...

A cheetah robot funded by the U.S. military has broken the land speed record while running on a lab treadmill. Its robotic display of athleticism gives hope for new battlefield robots that could prove ...

On a recent fall day at MIT, a group of players kicked around a soccer ball on the school's Killian Court lawn. They ran around and jumped in piles of leaves. They even did backflips. But these ...

Look, we get it. Robots are here and they're totally awesome and everything. But do they have to be so goddamn cocky about it? MIT's new backflipping "mini cheetah robot" is the latest addition to a ...

Hyperbole? No. This is how the human race is going to end. MIT have been working on their 'cheetah' robot for a few years now, and after getting its speed up and removing the need for a harness, ...