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Last year, MIT took the leash of its robot cheetah and let it prance around the great outdoors. If it wasn't terrifying and awe-inspiring enough to see the four-legged robo beast race untethered across a lawn and imagine it chasing you down, there's more; they taught it how to jump over things.
A new video shows MIT's robotic big cat leaping over obstacles up to 15 inches high without skipping a beat. Like a real cat, the robo cheetah adjusts the length of its stride as it starts to approach an object, and picks the perfect moment to pounce so it can land without losing any speed. It just uses an algorithm instead of instinct. The results are remarkable.
Should you someday find yourself running from a robo-cheetah, you're going to have to do much better than jumping a guard rail.
