The robot-gap was taught to jump through barriers

Engineers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology taught the robot-Gopard to jump over the run. The robot jumps on barriers to 45 centimeters in a height of 90 percent of cases.

The robot is equipped with a lidar - a system that determines the distance to the object and its height. Having received this information, the machine calculates the optimal distance to the obstacle from which it will be convenient to jump, and then drives the motors in the paws of the “cheetah”.

The creators of the robot expect that someday he will be able to run at the speed of a real cheetah. While it moves at a speed of 16 km/h. Soon, the “cheetah” will be taught to run along uneven surfaces.

The previous greater achievement of the robot from MIT was “Running without a leash” at a speed of up to 15 kilometers per hour. Then he did this, being "blind."

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