Okay, so it may not look quite as impressive as some
other mechanical cheetahs we've seen in the past, but this new one from
Boston Dynamics certainly has a lot of potential. That robot, plus a new humanoid called Atlas, have won
DARPA contracts and so will be put into at least limited production, much like the company's earlier
BigDog. Cheetah is said to run "faster than any existing legged robot and faster than the fastest human runners," while Atlas can "move through difficult terrain using human-like behavior," meaning neither running nor hiding will work. That leaves only fighting, so get ready to buck up.
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