What is it about a cheetah's build that enables it to run so fast? What gives the wolf its exceptional endurance? While these questions can be partly answered through animal experiments, many ...

The robot known as “Cheetah” has set a new world speed record for legged robots, and has passed the fastest speed for humans, too. Cheetah, built by Boston Dynamics and backed by DARPA. The machine, ...

(Phys.org)—Anyone who follows the latest in robot technology is almost certainly familiar with Boston Dynamics' AlphaDog, the mechanical pack mule and descendant of the original Big Dog built at the ...