Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news with a twist for CNET. When not wallowing in weird gear and iPad apps for cats, she can be found tinkering with her 1956 DeSoto. Watch ...

MIT's Cheetah robot has finally been let off the leash -- and boy can it run. Watch as it bounds across a grass field, and even jumps over a hurdle. It isn't quite up to the evolutionary magnificence ...

The robotic cheetah MIT has been working on can now autonomously detect and jump over obstacles while running at 5 miles per hour. This article, MIT's robo-cheetah can now see and jump over obstacles, ...

Move over, Cristiano Ronaldo. You've got competition. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) recently unveiled a new video of its Mini Cheetah robot, demonstrating that the four-legged ...

When the ‘cheetah-bot’ runs, it bounds with a grace and speed that resembles its animal namesake. The four-legged MIT-designed robot weighs almost as much as its feline counterpart and now researchers ...

The MIT engineers are at it again — and this time, they’ve created a robotic cheetah that knows how to leap. “In those settings, you need to use vision in order to avoid failure,” Gabriel Margolis, a ...

Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have announced the latest developments in their robotic cheetah project. The project aims to provide insights into how cheetahs can move ...

Here we were the other day, almost feeling sad someone went entirely vandal on the HitchBOT, the Canadian hitch-hiking robot that would count on people’s kindness to see the world when this happens. I ...

The last time we heard from the researchers working on MIT's robotic cheetah project, they had untethered their machine to let it bound freely across the campus lawns. Wireless and with a new spring ...

The robotic cheetah MIT has been working on can now autonomously detect and jump over obstacles while running at 5 miles per hour. Anthony Domanico CNET freelancer Anthony Domanico is passionate about ...