MIT Cheetah Robot Bounds Off Tether, Outdoors

Re:MIT Cheetah Robot Bounds Off Tether, Outdoors by zokier on Monday September 15, 2014 @12:59PM (#8319955)

It doesn't really look that impressive. Sure, the tech probably is very advanced, but the gait just looks silly and quite far from the "elegance" of fast land animals. While the article does imply that "getting from bounding to galloping is not that hard", I don't think it is that easy either or they would have done it already.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:MIT Cheetah Robot Bounds Off Tether, Outdoors by seeingfurther on Monday September 15, 2014 @01:14PM (#8320027)

I think the breakthrough here is that it is battery + electric motor powered and not internal combustion + hydraulics.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:MIT Cheetah Robot Bounds Off Tether, Outdoors by jmulho on Monday September 15, 2014 @02:06PM (#8320360)

I thought it looked cool until it never turned.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:MIT Cheetah Robot Bounds Off Tether, Outdoors by smackfu on Monday September 15, 2014 @01:33PM (#8320141)

I think that's mainly because small animals don't generally walk like that when they're going slow.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:MIT Cheetah Robot Bounds Off Tether, Outdoors by clairity on Monday September 15, 2014 @03:46PM (#8321023)

exactly, animals tend to use the most energetically efficient form of locomotion for a given desired speed (walking vs. running for example). i'm not sure that bounding is more efficient than either walking or galloping at any speed, since more energy seems to go into vertical and rotational motion than those more common forms of locomotion.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:MIT Cheetah Robot Bounds Off Tether, Outdoors by Swizec on Monday September 15, 2014 @07:24PM (#8322159)

A robot so advanced you can honestly compare it to its living counterpart. That's impressive.

[ Parent | on HN ]