They have had them running faster than 4 minute miles for years already on flat surfaces. They are already good on rough terrain and slippery surfaces as well.
Posted on 03/05/2019 3:09:51 AM PST by zeestephen
MIT's new mini cheetah robot is springy and light on its feet, with a range of motion that rivals a champion gymnast. The four-legged power pack can bend and swing its legs wide, enabling it to walk either right-side up or upside down. The robot can also trot over uneven terrain about twice as fast as an average person's walking speed. [You Tube link at bottom of original article]
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Do you want terminators ? Cause this is how you get terminators !
Will it fetch my slippers or make me a sammich?
Reminds me of that episode of ‘Black Mirror’ on NetFlix...yikes.
I thought that’s what wives were for.
“Boys don’t do those things Alice!!”
Even at its fastest, the human WALKING next to it is keeping up.
But yeah, in 20 years we’re in a lot of trouble.
But I’ll be 70 by then so screw it :)
They have had them running faster than 4 minute miles for years already on flat surfaces. They are already good on rough terrain and slippery surfaces as well.
“Will it fetch my slippers or make me a sammich?”
According to Ray Kurzweil (former head of MIT’s AI Lab, and CTO at Google), we are about seven years from such general purpose household robots.
How many millions of tax dollars paid for that backflip?
Good grief.
this is kinda scary,
I hope they don’t add a jaw and teeth!!
Very dangerous territory.
But i guess that was said about other tech in the past.
And sometimes they were right!
Here is one clocking in at 46 Km/Hr. The fastest human running speed ever recorded (Usain Bolt) was 44.72 
When will robots begin to compete against men who compete in women’s sports?
That’s really a robot in the bottom right!?!?!
We’re ####ed.
AI implanted in incredibly agile an powerful robots means trouble because the self teaching MUST at some point teach them that we’re not as smart as them, as strong as them and soon as agile as them.
Output: We are not needed and can be defeated.
Not tomorrow or 5 years from now.
But soon and for the rest of our lives. Yes I know that’s “Casablanca” but sometimes it’s the truth.
Apparently, getting a beer has been a higher development priority.
Once they learn not to hog the beers, they will be easier to live with.
Amazing.
There are serious risks and serious rewards from the advances in AI and robotics.
They might be hacked, and no doubt that Governments will want to covertly embed spyware.
On the other side, they will make things cheaper, better and easier for us.
Once the basic platform is about as mobile, strong and dexterous as a person; it will just need a software app to perform a new job - clean the house, do the laundry, cook the meals, raise the garden, fix the water heater, or perform emergency surgery. Everybody will want one.
Once your robot learns to make your eggs and mix your drinks just like yo like them, that info can be automatically shared over the Internet to any other robot that might serve you in your travels - as soon as they recognize your face, they can get your drink started.
Nonsense. I remember wind up toys that could do a back flip way back in 1956.
That is the Atlas model. He is the basic humanoid bipedal platform produced by Boston Robotics (MIT spin off). The Cheetah is the roughly dog-sized quadrupedal series of platforms (20-160 pounds).
After the Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan (2011), the need for emergency response robots who could go where humans could not was recognized. The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) began a competition (DARPA Robotics Challenge) to develop a robot who could meet the mission profile needed to respond to the situation in Fukushima, and prevent a meltdown (endure high radiation, drive a vehicle, open doors, climb stairs, navigate rubble, turn valves, and wield an electric saw).
Several teams participated every 18 months, sharing lessons learned and refining their design. After a few iterations, most of the leading teams began using the Atlas platform, refining it, and developing more software for it.
In addition to the Atlas and Cheetah (their main models), they also develop the heavy load bearing Mule, and a variety of specialized platform that fly, or do things like navigate inside pipelines.
Mules can carry 400 pounds for 20 miles without refueling.
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