MIT Cheetah Robot Dog Walking On The Streets – Video
Everyone was pretty sad a few days ago, almost feeling depressed someone vandalized the HitchBOT, the Canadian hitch-hiking cute robot that would count on people’s kindness to see the world when this happens.
OK, robots may be useful and helpful in the future. They may take the dirty work off humans’ hands, but when you see a four-legged dog like machine that walks on the street as if it were your pet, people will freak out for sure.
Every time people are trying to replicate nature’s animals, it feels like it is never perfect. We mean, even when this dog like robot pops up on the streets, it still doesn’t feel correct. It’s like, you know it’s potentially possible, but at the same time it simply doesn’t come across naturally. By now, you’re probably thinking what has gotten into us. Well, we have just come across the latest video the Massachusetts Institute of Technology put together of their project, and it’s both mind- boggling and scary at the same time.
The video which was posted on YouTube shows their now Internet famous Cheetah robot walking on the street like an entirely real animal. The “walk in the park” happened last year in December, 2014 but researchers have decided to keep it away from the call the guy until recently. Along with the video, there’s a small description that was posted “This may be the first time in history that a legged robot walked in the street with people.” So what? It’s still scaring the hell out of any normal person.
If we were to imagine it’s the first time you encounter the mechanical animal, then we’d find ourselves forced to talk a little more of it. You see, this animal like robot is the creation of the school’s Biometrics Lab, built by students to mimic the movement of an actual cheetah. Walking may not have been so impressive, but how does jumps over barriers 33 centimeters in height (13 inches)? What about reaching a top speed of up to 30 mph (48 km/h) sound to you?
The MIT researchers have not attained the last part of this project yet, but they claim it will happen soon. At that point, the animal like robot – which is powered by electricity, by the way – will be as fast as a human sprinter or maybe even faster.
Well, we just hope that these machines will not take over in the future just like the movie Terminator. But it sure looks like it is heading in that direction .