{"id":118231,"date":"2021-01-09T11:24:16","date_gmt":"2021-01-09T19:24:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/watch-mits-mini-cheetah-robots-frolic-fall-flip-and-play-soccer-together"},"modified":"2021-01-09T11:24:16","modified_gmt":"2021-01-09T19:24:16","slug":"watch-mits-mini-cheetah-robots-frolic-fall-flip-and-play-soccer-together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/watch-mits-mini-cheetah-robots-frolic-fall-flip-and-play-soccer-together","title":{"rendered":"Watch MIT\u2019s \u2018mini cheetah\u2019 robots frolic, fall, flip \u2013 and play soccer together"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/watch-mits-mini-cheetah-robots-frolic-fall-flip-and-play-soccer-together.gif\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Circa 2019<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>MIT\u2019s Biomimetics Robotics department took a whole herd of its new \u2018mini cheetah\u2019 robots out for a group demonstration on campus recently \u2013 and the result is an adorable, impressive display of the current state of robotic technology in action.<\/p>\n<p>The school\u2019s students are seen coordinating the actions of 9 of the dog-sized robots running through a range of activities, including coordinated movements, doing flips, springing in slow motion from under piles of fall leaves, and even playing soccer.<\/p>\n<p>The mini cheetah weights just 20 lbs, and its design was <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2019\/03\/04\/mits-speedy-mini-cheetah-robot-learns-to-backflip\/\">revealed for the first time earlier this year<\/a> by a team of robot developers working at MIT\u2019s Department of Mechanical Engineering. The mini cheetah is a shrunk-down version of the Cheetah 3, a much larger and more expensive to produce robot that is far less light on its feet, and not quite so customizable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Circa 2019 MIT\u2019s Biomimetics Robotics department took a whole herd of its new \u2018mini cheetah\u2019 robots out for a group demonstration on campus recently \u2013 and the result is an adorable, impressive display of the current state of robotic technology in action. The school\u2019s students are seen coordinating the actions of 9 of the dog-sized [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118231\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}