MIT Building Robotic Cheetah

Sangbae Kim, a robotic designer and professor at the Biomimetic Robotics Lab at MIT, is trying to build a lightweight carbon-fiber-foam composite robotic cheetah. Kim is hoping that the robocat will be able to run at a speed of 35 mph, the same as its real life counterpart. Check out his site for previous projects Stickybot, Spinybot and iSprawl.

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