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MIT's mini cheetah sets new speed PB by learning from experience

MIT's mini cheetah robot has broken its own personal best (PB) speed, hitting 8.72 mph (14.04 km/h) thanks to a new model-free reinforcement learning system that allows the robot to figure out on its ...
Popular Science

Machine learning helped MIT’s cheetah robot break its own speed record

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Yahoo

IShowSpeed Took on a Cheetah in a Race & Here’s Who Won

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo by Amal Alhasan/Getty Images for GEA YouTube sensation IShowSpeed is at it again, this time going toe-to-toe with one of the ...
Forbes

A Cheetah’s ‘Peak Velocity’ Is Governed By These 2 Laws, New Study Says

Here’s how medium-sized animals, like the cheetah, occupy an optimal balance between muscle size and body mechanics. Being the largest or having the longest limbs doesn’t guarantee the title of the ...
techtimes

MIT Mini Cheetah Robot Speed Enhancement Made Possible, Thanks to New Simulation Training—Similar to 'Matrix?'

After hours of testing, I'm thrilled to announce that you can now run the MIT Mini Cheetah in Gazebo using https://t.co/2URXjJ01j6. #goROS pic.twitter.com/fp344m7VbQ ...
ZDNet

How MIT's robot Cheetah got its speed

There's a new version of a very quick quadrupedal robot from MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL). While four-legged robots have garnered no end of attention over the ...