{"id":129391,"date":"2021-10-22T18:22:38","date_gmt":"2021-10-23T01:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/oh-great-mit-has-taught-its-robotic-cheetah-to-leap"},"modified":"2021-10-22T18:22:38","modified_gmt":"2021-10-23T01:22:38","slug":"oh-great-mit-has-taught-its-robotic-cheetah-to-leap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/oh-great-mit-has-taught-its-robotic-cheetah-to-leap","title":{"rendered":"Oh Great, MIT Has Taught Its Robotic Cheetah to Leap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7-GTiaA9h88?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The MIT engineers are at it again \u2014 and this time, they\u2019ve created a robotic cheetah that knows how to leap.<\/p>\n<p>The designers installed a new system in the robot, dubbed the \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/mini-cheetah-backflipping-robot\" class=\"\">mini cheetah<\/a>,\u201d<strong> <\/strong>that allows it to jump across gaps in the terrain, according to an MIT <a href=\"https:\/\/news.mit.edu\/2021\/one-giant-leap-mini-cheetah-1020\" class=\"\"> news release<\/a>. The system relies on a real-time video sensor that detects potential obstacles like gaps and holes, and translates it into instructions on how the cheetah should react.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn those settings, you need to use vision in order to avoid failure,\u201d Gabriel Margolis, a professor of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence at MIT, said in the release. \u201cFor example, stepping in a gap is difficult to avoid if you can\u2019t see it. Although there are some existing methods for incorporating vision into legged locomotion, most of them aren\u2019t really suitable for use with emerging agile robotic systems.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The MIT engineers are at it again \u2014 and this time, they\u2019ve created a robotic cheetah that knows how to leap. The designers installed a new system in the robot, dubbed the \u201cmini cheetah,\u201d that allows it to jump across gaps in the terrain, according to an MIT news release. The system relies on a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129391","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\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129391\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}