MIT's mini cheetah robot has broken its own personal best (PB) speed, hitting 8.72 mph (14.04 km/h) thanks to a new model-free reinforcement learning system that allows the robot to figure out on its ...

The Mini Cheetah robot was made at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and has previously been seen backflipping. The robot learned to run faster than ever before after the researchers ...

Here’s how medium-sized animals, like the cheetah, occupy an optimal balance between muscle size and body mechanics. Being the largest or having the longest limbs doesn’t guarantee the title of the ...

A cheetah sprinting across the savanna can look almost unreal in motion. The animal starts low in the grass, completely focused, then suddenly launches into a chase at astonishing speed. That ...