MIT's 'blind' Cheetah 3 robot can jump up on your desk

MIT's 'blind' Cheetah 3 robot can jump up on your desk

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https://www.cnet.com/news/mits-blind-cheetah-3-robot-can-jump-up-on-your-desk/

MIT shared a video on Thursday showing Cheetah 3 flexing its legs and doing treadmill exercises, including a jump called a "pronk." That sounds adorable until you get to the part where the robot runs loose outdoors, successfully climbs up obstacle-laden stairs and fights back against its captors (I mean "researchers").

The MIT team pulls on Cheetah 3 and pushes it around with a block of wood to study how it responds to adverse conditions. For the finale, it leaps from ground level onto the top of a desk. It does all of this by relying on "feel" instead of cameras.