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 ...

The robot known as “Cheetah” has set a new world speed record for legged robots, and has passed the fastest speed for humans, too. Cheetah, built by Boston Dynamics and backed by DARPA. The machine, ...

DARPA and Boston Dynamics have broken their own legged-robot land speed record: Cheetah, which set a record of 18mph earlier in the year, has now been clocked at 28.3mph (12.6m/s) -- faster than Usain ...

Fast running robots are fun, fueling the imagination with all manner of military or search-and-rescue scenarios. This may be the reason why so many different groups from Boston Dynamics to MIT have ...