DARPA – ICRAC https://www.icrac.net International Committee for Robot Arms Control Sun, 22 Sep 2013 20:12:57 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 128339352 DARPA Cheetah Sets Speed Record for Legged Robots https://www.icrac.net/darpa-cheetah-sets-speed-record-for-legged-robots/ Wed, 07 Mar 2012 11:14:10 +0000 http://icrac.net/?p=131 Author information
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This video released by DARPA, the far-out Pentagon’s research agency, shows “Cheetah” breaking the speed record for legged robots. Cheetah is made by Boston Dynamics, the company that developed BigDog, AlphaDog, and PETMAN.

This is what ICRAC’s Noel Sharkey has to say about it on the BBC website:

“With faster than human speed, this is a step in the development of a high speed killer that could negotiate a battlefield quickly to hunt and kill”

Yikes!

The full text of the BBC article can be found here.

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