MIT scientists say the backflipping bot is the first four-legged robot to pull off the feat.
. But the scientists behind the"Mini Cheetah" robot say it's the first four-legged bot to do a backflip — and they have video to back up the claim.
While it's no match for its flesh-and-blood namesake, Mini Cheetah is also pretty fast. Over rough terrain, it can ."Having a platform that's relatively small and safe and cheap makes running experiments very easy — you don't have to worry about breaking the robot or getting hurt," Ben Katz, a technical associate in MIT's department of mechanical engineering and the robot's designer and builder, said in an email.
There are no plans to make Mini Cheetah commercially available, according to Katz. Instead, the team behind the robot plans to build multiple copies of the bot and loan them to other research groups.
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