Cheetah

Pentagon Robot Is Faster Than Usain Bolt—and Freaks the Hell Out of Me

This is freaking scary. This is even scarier than Big Dog. It’s the latest version of the Pentagons’s newest Cheetah robot and it now runs faster than Usain Bolt. 0.5 miles per hour faster than the fastest man on Earth. https://gizmodo.com/new-video-of-bigdog-quadruped-robot-is-so-stunning-its-368651 And if can catch Usain, it can catch you too. And then kill you.…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Sep 5

DARPA’s Newest Robot Is Possibly Its Creepiest Ever

We love DARPA’s unsettlingly-lifelike BigDog bot. We love it in spite of the fact that it’s absolutely terrifying in motion. Now it has some bestial competition: the DARPA Cheetah. Ugh. Its legs. Its legs are so frightening. Above, the Cheetah sets a speed record for four-legged robots, at 18 MPH. Herculean Olympian speed impossibility Usain…

Tech News Sam Biddle Mar 5

A Cheetah-Inspired Robo-Beast and a Headless Terminator

Remember Boston Dynamics, the company responsible for the oh-so-creepy BigDog robot? Well they’re still at it, except now they’re working on a cheetah-like robot (called Cheetah) that can chase us down like prey, and a humanoid, bipedal robot that looks like the Terminator crossed with the Headless Horseman. https://gizmodo.com/new-video-of-bigdog-quadruped-robot-is-so-stunning-its-368651 According to Wired’s Danger Room blog,…

Tech News Adrian Covert Feb 25

National Zoo has two new cheetahs

The Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute announced the birth of not one but two cheetah cubs. The two cubs were born to two separate mothers. Find out about the surprising challenges they face, and see some kitty pictures. The Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, part of the National Zoo, began housing breeding pairs of cheetahs only a…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell Dec 29

Surveillance Cameras Capture the Elusive, Endangered Saharan Cheetah

Using motion-triggered cameras developed for surveillance, a team of researchers in Algeria has captured the first photographs of a nearly-legendary variety of cheetah, believed to be one of only 250 Saharan cheetahs left on Earth. Sarah Durant, a zoologist based in London, worked with the Office du Parc National de l’Ahaggar (OPNA) to track the…

io9 Annalee Newitz Feb 24

Paralympics: The Games Where Bionic Athletes Reign

Tech and the Olympics are a recipe for controversy. Before double-amputee sprinter Oscar Pistorius (right) was finally approved to compete in the Olympics (he failed to qualify, barely), naysayers claimed his carbon-fiber Cheetah blade prostheses gave him an advantage over non-cyborg competitors. And Speedo’s LZR suit has been decried for rendering meaningless any world records…

Tech News John Mahoney Sep 12

Cheetahs, Pumas and Tigers, Oh My: The Two-Minute OS X History Primer

Later today we’ll find out what (if any) new secret features made it into Apple’s latest kitty—hopefully a few from our list—in addition to everything we already know. https://gizmodo.com/rumor-apple-to-add-top-secret-features-to-leopard-252203 But there were past times, darker times, in the history of OS X—we didn’t always have widgets, Expose, or that rock-solid stability Apple pimps so hard…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Jun 11

GPSMirror Helps You Avoid Speeding Tickets

Tired of getting busted on the road by those hidden speed cameras? Cheetah’s GPSMirror is a rearview mirror for your car that warns you of incoming traffic cameras so you can slow down and avoid those nasty speeding tickets. The mirror displays your speed and can be programmed to give you visual, spoken, or audible…

Gadgets Louis Ramirez May 16

Pentagon Robot Is Faster Than Usain Bolt—and Freaks the Hell Out of Me

DARPA’s Newest Robot Is Possibly Its Creepiest Ever

A Cheetah-Inspired Robo-Beast and a Headless Terminator

National Zoo has two new cheetahs

Surveillance Cameras Capture the Elusive, Endangered Saharan Cheetah

Paralympics: The Games Where Bionic Athletes Reign

Cheetahs, Pumas and Tigers, Oh My: The Two-Minute OS X History Primer

GPSMirror Helps You Avoid Speeding Tickets

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