Unnervingly reminiscent of nature's fastest beast in both form and stride, Boston Dynamics developed this robot capable of running at speeds up to 18 MPH— not as fast as an actual cheetah, but much ...

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 ...

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 ...