DARPA creates a Cheetah robot

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"WASHINGTON (CBSDC) — Don’t blink. A robot created by the Department of Defense can now run faster than Olympic gold medalist Usain Bolt.

The Cheetah robot – developed by the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency – broke its own land speed record of 18 mph Wednesday by going 28.3 mph in a 20-meter split.


“What DARPA is doing with its robotics programs is attempting to understand and engineer into robots certain core capabilities that living organisms have refined over millennia of evolution: efficient locomotion, manipulation of objects and adaptability to environments,” Gill Pratt, DARPA program manager, said in a press release. “Our Cheetah bot borrows ideas from nature’s design to inform stride patterns, flexing and unflexing of parts like the back, placement of limbs and stability. What we gain through Cheetah and related research efforts are technological building blocks that create possibilities for a whole range of robots suited to future Department of Defense missions."

http://washington.cbslocal.com/2012/09/06/defense-department-creates-robot-that-outruns-olympian-usain-bolt/

What they won't do in order to find more ways of killing.....

We all know it's really a Department of Offence

Exactly ReuniteR....

Kinda reminds me of the coyote and his ACME inventions. LOL

The day I am driving down the highway and I see a funny looking cheetah bypass me is when my eyes will pop.

and it doesn't get out of breath either

good post. Its all over bar the shouting.

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