We love DARPA ’s unsettlingly - lifelikeBigDogbot . We have intercourse it in spite of the fact that it ’s dead terrifying in movement . Now it has some brute competition : the DARPA Cheetah . Ugh . Its leg . Its legs are so frightening .
Watch the Amazing BigDog Robot ’s boastful chum Romp Around the wood
Above , the Cheetah plant a amphetamine record book for four - legged automaton , at 18 MPH . Herculean Olympian speed impossible action Usain Bolt can sprint at around 23 MPH . And he ’s a mutation of forcible capability .
In other words , this thing can and will chase you down :
The robot ’s movements are design to mime those of fast - running fauna in nature . The robot increases its stride and race upper by deform and un - flex its back on each step , much as an genuine Acinonyx jubatus does .
The current version of the Cheetah robot runs on a science lab salt mine where it is powered by an off - table hydraulic ticker , and utilize a roaring - same machine to keep it running in the center of the treadwheel . Testing of a free - running prototype is planned for later this year .
DARPA wo n’t elaborate on what the military app of the Cheetah are — the BigDog is distinctly for haul heavy geared wheel through rough terrain . So what will this metallic hell creature chase , someday , maybe ? Terrorists ? bomb ? If it can do more than unravel in a full-strength line , it ’d be pretty killer whale for recon . Or opine a hundred of them ramp an enemy hideout at once on a self-annihilation mission .
For now , its superlative capability is being exceedingly creepy to the dot of being hard to follow . Why is it running backwards ?
Which golem will haunt your dream ?
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