Vision-free MIT Cheetah

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[dimitary]

my brain is burning from just imagining the amount of calculations this thing runs just to do those fancy basic walking cycles O.O

[vijayabhaskar-j]

So you're a researcher at MIT? What is your job?
He: I push robots off the desk.

[BakerCountyTrashPickup]

Oh man, I wanted to see that jump in real time! :( Great work!

[andrewwilliams]

This is why I want to go to MIT, get to see jumping robots on the way to class...

[adityanarendra]

The smile on the faces of the ppl their tells the kind of dedication and hard work they put in for it to happen.

[deepakdoer]

He is ready to kill, just need to fit a pistol.

[jeetendrabansal]

"jumping on the desk" is one of the best.... Good work MIT & it's team

[WebWonders]

That's why I love MIT to build such a remarkable invention.

[steveglen]

My professor will give me a 'B' for this project

[scoff]

Someday that robot will push you back with that wood

[aashishkadu]

We Need to delete this video from YouTube, if the future robots saw that there ancestor's were harmed they may make our life more worse
🤣🤣🤣🤣

[divano]

People in 2050 will have these dogs just walking them around

[Fca]

Oh cool, invertible knee joints. Now it doesn't even have to turn when it turns against its master.

[kouseikous]

Wow. Good work on the Cheetah. The jump onto the desk was quite impressive. Keep up the awesome work MIT!

[Jappanb]

This is reminding me of black mirror, and all those safety features are scary, like imagine it chasing u, blind? No problem, take out a leg no problem, push it over no problem

[brokenbob]

The inverted knee joints are extremely clever. Rather than having to slowly turn around, it can simply just invert its “knees” and run the opposite direction. Something I never would have thought of.

[bhupendrachauhan]

No animals were harmed in making this video.

[emwa]

Its amazing how we all are just laying around in bed and lazing off while these young minds are building impossible things like these. We should really just appreciate them more in comments instead of making jokes or commenting memes.

[dgiftz]

2:38 - Jumping onto test is awesome

Make more videos on how it jumps and error recorded while jumping

[CaptainEndo]

It's really a great innovation. But kind of creepy. Looks like a beginning of a Terminator movie