It's one thing to make a robot that can run around, but what about one that can do it blind? MIT's new Cheetah 3 quadrupedal robot answers that question by covering rough terrain in leaps, pounces and ...

Researchers from the Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan recently published a study where they propose and validate an analytical model for studying cheetah galloping by comparing its predictions ...

(Left) Flight types involved in cheetah galloping (Right) A simple model for analyzing galloping motion. A team of researchers from Japan devised a simple analytical model emulating vertical hopping ...

What makes cheetah the fastest land mammal? Why aren't other animals, such as horses, as fast? While we haven't yet figured out why, we have some idea about how--cheetahs, as it turns out, make use of ...