Still, the robot's ability to mimic the cheetah's natural stride by flexing and unflexing its back on each step allowed it to beat the previous record of 13.1 mph, set in 1989.

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 -- faster than Usain Bolt ...

The last fastest four-legged robot set the record in 1981 with running speed of 13.1 mph and was built in MIT. The Cheetah, funded by the Defense Advanced Research Project’s Agency (DARPA), and ...

DARPA’s “Cheetah” robot set a new land speed record for legged robots, galloping at 18 miles per hour, topping the previous record of 13.1 miles per hour set in 1989. The robot’s movements are ...

The new mini cheetah is a scaled-down version of the Cheetah 3 that we previously saw prancing around the MIT campus. The four-legged robot weighs just 20 pounds and can run at 2.45 meters per ...

A four-legged robot known as the Cheetah lived up to its name on Monday, setting a new land speed record for legged robots by running at 18 mph on a treadmill at a laboratory in Massachusetts, its ...