MIT Robotic Cheetah

MIT researchers have developed an algorithm for bounding that they've successfully implemented in a robotic cheetah. (Learn more: http://mitsha.re/1uHoltW) The MIT Cheetah 2 contains the custom electric motor designed by Jeffrey Lang, the Vitesse Professor of Electrical Engineering at MIT and the amplifier designed by David Otten, a principal research engineer in MIT’s Research Laboratory of Electronics. This work was supported by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. Video: Melanie Gonick/MIT Additional footage: Hae-Won Park and José-Luis Olivares Music sampled from "Spooky" by Alastair Cameron http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Alastair_Cameron http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/