Researchers at the Boston Dynamics have done it again, setting the record for the fastest running robot on four legs. The last fastest four-legged robot set the record in 1981 with running speed ...

Watch Boston Dynamics' Atlas robot doing training routines, or the latest humanoids from Figure loading a washing machine, ...

In both cases, as with Cheetah, Boston Dynamics' unique approach was to aim for what it calls "dynamic stability." Most robots aim to maintain their balance at all points in their movement.

Cheetah uses some concepts from BigDog, a pack-mule inspired bot Boston Dynamics created a few years ago, and other earlier robots they developed. The company's other legged robots are designed to ...

The Cheetah first hit headlines in late February 2011. Boston Dynamics had won its latest contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) with a vague sketch and a big promise—to ...

Boston Dynamics The Cheetah set a new record for the speediest robot. It can run faster than 29 miles per hour, completely destroying the previous record, set in 1989 at MIT, of 13.1 miles per hour.

Robots with legs have long been slow, lumbering machines. But the aptly named Cheetah robot, created by Boston Dynamics in partnership with DARPA, is a fast step in a new direction.

Robotics company Boston Dynamics has been awarded a contract to develop a military quadruped cheetah-like robot, capable of running faster than any human (Image: Boston Dynamics) View 2 Images ...

Boston Dynamics, the Waltham-based robotics company that developed BigDog of YouTube fame, announced that it will begin work on two new robots: the Cheetah and a human-like robot called Atlas ...

An agency of the U.S. Department of Defense has developed a new robot — dubbed Cheetah — capable of running more than 28 miles per hour, leaving the world’s fastest runner, Usain Bolt, in ...