The robot can run at 13 mph of a flat course. The MIT will showcase the robot's new skills at the DARPA Robotics Challenge Finals in California on June 5-6. The Cheetah project is funded by DARPA ...

The bigger questions should be something along the lines of how does DARPA and others working on robotic fighting machines ensure these won’t engage in friendly fire? Or murder innocent civilians?

but today’s autonomous robots have a difficult time operating underground. DARPA wanted to give the state of the art a push forward, so they are running a Subterranean (SubT) Challenge which ...