{"id":54097,"date":"2013-05-17T12:36:22","date_gmt":"2013-05-17T10:36:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=54097"},"modified":"2013-05-17T16:55:33","modified_gmt":"2013-05-17T14:55:33","slug":"robot-cheetah-terminators-could-be-a-thing-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/54097-robot-cheetah-terminators-could-be-a-thing-soon","title":{"rendered":"Robot Cheetah Terminators could be a thing soon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the Terminator universe there&#8217;s a big emphasis on the robots either looking like humans (with soft tissue, like a cyborg) or as big metallic tanks (mini-Metal Gears) or drones. But in the Transformers universe, robots come in all shapes and sizes, from a rat to a scorpion and even dinosaurs (in the Beast Wars animated series).<\/p>\n<p>But if we&#8217;re not able to stop Judgement Day and Skynet achieving sentience (Google+ and Facebook are the likely candidates), one of the robots you&#8217;d have to look out for is shaped like a cheetah &#8211; and students at MIT and engineers at Boston Dynamics are working on them right now.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">MIT Cheetah &#8211; 22km\/h Top speed<\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UBHJqnM8RTU?rel=0\" height=\"338\" width=\"600\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Top speed: 22km per hour. Its currently only capable of running at high speeds with the aid of a mechanical arm that keeps it stable. The group has only just finished working on making it move in the same way as a real Cheetah, and it&#8217;s four times faster than the Honda Asimo.<\/p>\n<p>MIT&#8217;s Cheetah achieves this by using a lightweight plastic and carbon fibre construction and uses electric motors for speed and efficiency, rather than the hydraulic arms Asimo uses. The Cheetah can run on a battery approximately 3kg in weight and, thanks to dynamos, can also recharge its own batteries through energy released in motion.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_54101\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/MIT-Cheetah.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-54101\" class=\"size-large wp-image-54101\" alt=\"MIT Cheetah\" src=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/MIT-Cheetah-600x358.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"358\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/MIT-Cheetah-600x358.jpg 600w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/MIT-Cheetah.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-54101\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">MIT Cheetah<\/p><\/div>\n<p>MIT says that they&#8217;re working on how to get the machine to change direction and that it&#8217;ll require a completely different set of motors. One thing&#8217;s for sure, if you see this thing barreling after you, run it over or kill it with fire.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Boston Dymamics Cheetah &#8211; 45.54km\/h Top speed<\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/chPanW0QWhA?rel=0\" height=\"338\" width=\"600\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nBut the MIT Cheetah isn&#8217;t the fastest out there. Boston Dynamic&#8217;s Cheetah, funded by DARPA, is faster than Usain Bolt with a top speed of 45.54km\/h. It too has a balancing and directional problem and can only run aided by a support boom.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike MIT&#8217;s version, the BD Cheetah gallops like a horse, instead of transitioning from a run, to a trot and then bounding like an actual cheetah. It will be field-tested with new directional motors later this year and is a prime candidate for use in warfare, because it could be modified to be remotely controlled.<\/p>\n<h6>Sources: <a title=\"MIT's cheetah robot runs faster, more efficiently, can carry its own power supply (video) \" href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2013\/05\/17\/mit-cheetah-robot-runs-faster-more-efficiently\/\" target=\"_blank\">Engadget (MIT Cheetah)<\/a>, <a title=\"Boston Dynamics' Cheetah robot will hunt you down faster than any person (video) \" href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2012\/09\/06\/boston-dynamics-cheetah-gets-faster\/\" target=\"_blank\">Engadget (Boston Cheetah)<\/a><\/h6>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More Gadget news:<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/54071-google-io-the-news-you-need-to-know.html\">Google I\/O: the news you need to know<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/53988-five-gadgets-that-could-make-your-life-easier.html\">Five gadgets that could make your life easier<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/54024-google-play-gets-serious-about-gaming.html\">Google Play gets serious about gaming<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We welcome the new robot cheetah overlords<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":208,"featured_media":54118,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8585],"tags":[10027,10028,3344,21,10026,5726,6318,10025],"class_list":["post-54097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gadgets","tag-boston-dynamics","tag-cheetah","tag-darpa","tag-headline","tag-judgement-day","tag-metal-gear","tag-mit","tag-terminator"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/208"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54097"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54119,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54097\/revisions\/54119"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}