Boston Dynamics founder Marc Raibert calls his company's efforts to deliver a legged reconnaissance robot "basic research." After seeing the mechanized Cheetah in action (see video below), you can ...

Ultimately, Boston Dynamics hopes the Cheetah’s offspring will manuever at speeds of 50 mph and more. DARPA aims to use them in rough terrain for “emergency response, humanitarian assistance, and ...

Boston Dynamics, a Waltham, Massachusetts technology firm and DARPA contractor, ... as with Cheetah, Boston Dynamics' unique approach was to aim for what it calls "dynamic stability." ...

Boston Dynamic’s latest announcement, prior to the Cheetah, was the LS3, a larger and more advanced version of its cousin, BigDog.The LS3 is guided by its computer vision, programmed to follow a ...

Boston Dynamics has unveiled WildCat, the free-roaming version of its Cheetah robot, was famously broke Usain Bolt's speed record. The stunning video demonstration shows the robotic cheetah ...

A prototype built by Boston Dynamics in Waltham reached a speed of 18 miles per hour, ... called Cheetah, is funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA. Skip to Main Content ...

But the aptly named Cheetah robot, created by Boston Dynamics in partnership with DARPA, is a fast step in a new direction. In the video below, the machine reaches 18 miles per hour on a ...

IEEE Spectrum – Boston Dynamics’ Cheetah robot has just set a new record for legged robots by sprinting at 28.3 mph. This, incidentally, is also faster than Olympic (human) champion Usain Bolt, who ...

A relative of Boston Dynamics’ Cheetah robot, which last year managed to outpace the world’s fastest man Usain Bolt on a treadmill, is now able to run outdoors untethered. Named the WildCat ...

After years of trying, 60 Minutes cameras finally get a peek inside the workshop at Boston Dynamics, where robots move in ways once only thought possible in movies. Anderson Cooper reports.

Now, Boston Dynamics is taking the chains off of its world record holder and letting the next generation of sprinter run, ... The last time we saw the sprinting "Cheetah" robot, ...