Mini Cheetah Robot Can Now Run Faster Than Ever (VIDEO)

MIT engineers demonstrate its new capabilities

The ” Mini Cheetah ” robot of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) had impressed with its abilities and the somersaults we had seen it perform before. 

But now thanks to the further development of its hardware and software, this mini robot has learned to run faster than ever . This was achieved thanks to MIT’s Improbable AI Lab where it replaced its operating controller with a “ learn-by-experience model”. The previous AI it incorporated was based on data analysis and was designed by human engineers to manage the robot’s balance and mobility. 

However, this process is tedious for engineers and requires too much manual work to account for every possible terrain or situation the robot will encounter. 

The impressive thing about its new algorithm is that it allows it to accumulate “100 days of navigation experience in various terrains ” in just three hours, thus giving it the resources to handle these situations, thereby drawing the appropriate information when it encounters the corresponding scenario in the real world. Zoe. 

Thanks to this approach the Mini Cheetah was able to run at the highest speed ever recorded at 6.2 km/h. The MIT team wants to extend this approach to other robotic systems, such as arms that can pick up and handle various objects, to teach them a variety of skills without as much manual labor.

Check out the new abilities of the Mini Cheetah robot in the video below.