{"id":44999,"date":"2012-03-06T10:06:45","date_gmt":"2012-03-06T08:06:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=44999"},"modified":"2012-03-07T11:28:40","modified_gmt":"2012-03-07T09:28:40","slug":"cheetah-robot-sets-new-speed-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/44999-cheetah-robot-sets-new-speed-record.html","title":{"rendered":"Cheetah robot sets new speed record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A four-legged robot known as the Cheetah lived up to its name on Monday, setting a new land speed record for legged robots by running at 18 mph on a treadmill at a laboratory in Massachusetts, its developer said.<\/p>\n<p>The Cheetah, being developed by <a title=\"Boston Dynamics\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/410395-Boston-Dynamics\">Boston Dynamics<\/a> with funding from the military&#8217;s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, is part of a program aimed at achieving theoretical and experimental advances in the science of robotics.<\/p>\n<p>The Cheetah broke a land speed record for legged robots that was set in 1989 when a two-legged robot at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ran at a speed of just over 13 mph, Boston Dynamics said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Alfred Rizzi\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/410397-Alfred-Rizzi\">Dr. Alfred Rizzi<\/a>, chief robotics scientist at Boston Dynamics, said the goal is ultimately to get the Cheetah running much faster and in an outdoors environment.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We designed the treadmill to go over 50 mph but we plan to get off the treadmill and into the field as soon as possible,&#8221; Rizzi said in a statement. &#8220;We really want to understand the limits of what is possible for fast-moving robots.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/83ULlgpT1UQ\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A four-legged robot known as the Cheetah lived up to its name on Monday, setting a new land speed record for legged robots by running at 18 mph on a treadmill<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":340871,"featured_media":43473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[36,9529,9531,9533],"class_list":["post-44999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-active","tag-alfred-rizzi","tag-boston-dynamics","tag-defense-advanced-research-projects-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44999"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/340871"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44999"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45001,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44999\/revisions\/45001"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}