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 ...

The Mini Cheetah robot was made at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and has previously been seen backflipping. The robot learned to run faster than ever before after the researchers ...

A cheetah from the Cincinnati Zoo became the world's fastest land mammal Wednesday, not once, but twice. Sarah, the 8-year-old female cheetah, ran the 100-meter dash in 6.16 seconds on her first ...

A cheetah known as Chewbaaka has helped scientists time-travel through that species’ long, complex history, even providing some clues about how the big cats became the world’s fastest land animals.

Everyone knows that cheetah's reign when it comes to overall speed, but there are a few other speedy animals that might surprise you. The chase lasted less than 30 seconds. No jagged turn could throw ...

[Photo: Boston Dynamics] From the makers of the Terminator-esque Petman and the load-bearing Alpha Dog, comes Boston Dynamics’s latest robotic terror: a robotic Cheetah. The new Cheetah Robot is the ...