What’s scarier than a cheetah, one of nature’s most awesome big cats? A robot cheetah, of course. What’s scarier than a robot cheetah? A backflipping robot cheetah, created by the evidently fiendishly ...

Three developments in robotics this week have revealed the staggering rate of innovation. Two projects from MIT and one from Stanford show a hurdling robot cheetah, an origami robot that folds itself ...

The quadruped “mini cheetah” developed at the Massachusetts Instituteof Technology has become the first four-legged robot to successfully do a backflip. The 360-degree jump from standing position is ...

Engineers at MIT have created a plethora of robots in recent years from machines that see with their feet to a cheetah automaton that can run through the grass. Now ...

Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news with a twist for CNET. When not wallowing in weird gear and iPad apps for cats, she can be found tinkering with her 1956 DeSoto. MIT's ...

We've seen robots run, jump, perform somersaults — we've even seen a robot do parkour. But the scientists behind the "Mini Cheetah" robot say it's the first four-legged bot to do a backflip — and they ...