{"id":98332,"date":"2019-11-09T23:45:07","date_gmt":"2019-11-10T07:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/its-that-time-of-year-again-fall-is-here-and-packs-of-robot-dogs-are-frolicking-in-the-leaves"},"modified":"2019-11-09T23:45:07","modified_gmt":"2019-11-10T07:45:07","slug":"its-that-time-of-year-again-fall-is-here-and-packs-of-robot-dogs-are-frolicking-in-the-leaves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/its-that-time-of-year-again-fall-is-here-and-packs-of-robot-dogs-are-frolicking-in-the-leaves","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s that time of year again \u2014 fall is here and packs of robot dogs are frolicking in the leaves"},"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\/G6fMV1UPzkg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Each one weighs about 20 pounds (or nine kilograms), is powered by 12 electrical motors, and can reach speeds of around six miles per hour (or 2.5 meters per second). As you can see in the video, they\u2019re all being steered manually using what look like RC controllers.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to IEEE Spectrum earlier this year, Sangbae Kim, director of MIT\u2019s biomimetics lab, said the bots are being used to research various problems that require a bit of ruggedness and flexibility. Their modular design lets scientists swap in new parts if they break, and their tough build can survive crashes and bangs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMini Cheetah is just about the perfect size. Twenty pounds (9 kilograms) is not too small but not so big that it\u2019s dangerous or fragile,\u201d said Sangbae. \u201cWe designed the machine to be able to absorb the impacts, jumping and landing and so on.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each one weighs about 20 pounds (or nine kilograms), is powered by 12 electrical motors, and can reach speeds of around six miles per hour (or 2.5 meters per second). As you can see in the video, they\u2019re all being steered manually using what look like RC controllers. Speaking to IEEE Spectrum earlier this year, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98332","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98332\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}