Vision-free MIT Cheetah

MIT's Cheetah 3 robot can now leap and gallop across rough terrain, climb a staircase littered with debris, and quickly recover its balance when suddenly yanked or shoved, all while essentially blind. Learn more: news.mit.edu/20...
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[@vijayabhaskar-j]

So you're a researcher at MIT? What is your job? He: I push robots off the desk.

[@abhishekkumar-os5zk]

doctor takes the baby outside of womb. learn the meaning of significance of work .

[@-Frameshift]

Learn the meaning of a joke

[@dennislaux]

Very funny....I laughed out loud.

[@sanyamchawla4276]

So u are a robocat?

[@CopperCreekCuts]

Oh man, I wanted to see that jump in real time! :( Great work!

[@johnmarkm.5743]

The jump probably drained it totally and left it overturned on the table, legs up from the torture it had to endure making the video all day long a few sec later. Slow motion gave them time to cut out that section :-D

[@flashkraft]

I clicked the settings sprocket icon on the player and made it x2 speed. It was better but still not real time.

[@bulentsbr-k9911]

Bunu ODTÜ lüler Görmesin Çok Bozulurlar sonra 😃😃

[@orewanell]

still not enough i guess. it's like 4-5 times slower

[@BusyPlaying]

Oh, just wait, you will ... most likely in your living room! ;- ) P.S. # SKYNET is coming

[@dimitar4y]

my brain is burning from just imagining the amount of calculations this thing runs just to do those fancy basic walking cycles O.O

[@chronologious9657]

Imagine the unfathomable amount of calculations you do in order to even be alive right now.

[@marie-theresepaumard169]

Alucard Pawpad p

[@ahmedhamed-fm3um]

Chronologious thanks allah for all that ❤

[@thunderbolt997]

Soon some angry person will bash the guy who thanked his creator with some witty comment

[@justsaythat8783]

you know you should be thanking your lord for jihad and mass murders only, rest doesnt look right or good or at least coming from you or that creator

[@deepakdoer8507]

He is ready to kill, just need to fit a pistol.

[@Itachi-nc8wf]

transformers reference?

[@10fttall6ftwide]

Black mirror EPISODE on netflix has robots EXACTLY LIKE THIS with guns on it.

[@bastianoportus5974]

@@10fttall6ftwide I was thinking about that

[@debban6397]

@@Projectheureka wut

[@TheLeo4975]

@@10fttall6ftwide well black mirror was inspired by Boston dynamics. This company made it years beforehand.

[@adityanarendra5886]

The smile on the faces of the ppl their tells the kind of dedication and hard work they put in for it to happen.

[@ashwingole111]

Me after my legs workout 1:58

[@manojitbiswas92]

Lmfao😂

[@shubhamarora2103]

😂😂😂

[@taha7shaikh]

Lol 😂🤪

[@aakashchaudhary5171]

You just nail it

[@mayonaise7602]

lol

[@scoff7032]

Someday that robot will push you back with that wood

[@raahimhadi4905]

Lol

[@RakeshYadav-qs3lr]

Yes ! 😊😊😊

[@lavishsethi223]

I am happy for that

[@jakejones6481]

Im happy ill be dead by that time arrives.

[@jakejones6481]

@Allah Nope. Thats only in future.

[@WebWonders1]

That's why I love MIT to build such a remarkable invention.

[@steveglen3354]

My professor will give me a 'B' for this project

[@mahmoudmagdy7817]

Yeah he might say .. why it's so noisy .. u should work on that..

[@customsandcuisines6751]

For you to work more hard

[@rajab4187]

My will give C+

[@Astitva]

Mine will fail me

[@danielonyia498]

Well the world would give u infinity++. Which is also known as infinite money

[@brokenbob9802]

The inverted knee joints are extremely clever. Rather than having to slowly turn around, it can simply just invert its “knees” and run the opposite direction. Something I never would have thought of.

[@F4c2a]

Oh cool, invertible knee joints. Now it doesn't even have to turn when it turns against its master.

[@sanjayg6842]

😂😂

[@world8601]

Same thought 😂

[@Projectheureka]

ANY common idiots can innovate and create that which kills the most. But are you capable of creating anything else, the opposites of destructions, dear MIT "Geniuses"? www.propublica.org/article/mit-media-lab-kept-regulators-in-the-dark-dumped-chemicals-in-excess-of-legal-limit Nope! And therein lies the oldest running misconceptions and lies of the superior intellectual "Evolution" of the Abraham's nonsense religions & Testosterone operated, organized violences loving ( White and other) Apes. How ironic, prof. Murray. How ironic Godless Best, A.E. Projectheureka LLC

[@daphenomenalz4100]

@@Projectheureka 😂😂😂 i am laughing at that "testosterone operated",😂😂😂😂, really?? How can you believe this🤣 shit and think you are genius🤣

[@-abhinjharwal]

0:57 Me when I see a cockroach

[@sumeetkumar5676]

You start a war-dancing lmfao

[@Jappanb]

This is reminding me of black mirror, and all those safety features are scary, like imagine it chasing u, blind? No problem, take out a leg no problem, push it over no problem

[@gargasen9984]

Episode name METALHEAD

[@grzegorz6698]

0:56 my neighbours upstairs at 1 AM

[@konamipes1699]

they are not jumping around in my opinion, they are doing something else 😁

[@idkbro9703]

@@konamipes1699 oh shit I just realized lol

[@spyler1565]

2020: Robots dancing and humans enjoying 3020: Humans dancing and robots enjoying

[@abdelbariechadad4740]

Hello i am from moroco and i want to be a robotic ingeneer i need some informations can you helpe me

[@spyler1565]

@@abdelbariechadad4740 how, Im a programmer not a mechanic😆😆

[@prasoonkumar6010]

We will not be there then ✌️😇

[@AsifAli-gi3rh]

Best comment ever

[@LunaWuna]

I dare you to bring one to a dog park

[@zuhairahmedsyed5853]

XD

[@citrocar1028]

They'll kill it.

[@citrocar1028]

I mean dismantle it.

[@Sunny-wu7po]

Also some broken teeth's 😂

[@brainshot-facts]

Name is cheetah But it is dog by heart😂😂

[@mr.nobody9034]

😂😂😂

[@aashishkadu7297]

We Need to delete this video from KZbin,if the future robots saw that there ancestor's were harmed they may make our life more worse 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@nomadicbharat8642]

Isko chandrayan ke sath bhejna. Chahigiye tha pragyan rover ki jagah

[@sundaramsharma6210]

@@nomadicbharat8642 true that 😅

[@being_black_is_not_a_choice]

Everytime i saw such things, I always remember Black Mirror - Metalhead

[@gayratmurtazaev1951]

we might be the god of them ) im just saying

[@gayratmurtazaev1951]

@المهاجر التونسي not from nothing Koran says from soil

[@emwa678]

Its amazing how we all are just laying around in bed and lazing off while these young minds are building impossible things like these. We should really just appreciate them more in comments instead of making jokes or commenting memes.

[@doodleoffice221]

You are right. All lot has gone into making robots like these. But in literally every video, I hardly see anyone appreciating these robots and see only jokes about robots taking over earth.

[@pidayrocks2235]

Thanks! We appreciate that :)

[@irshadtarsoo7734]

You're right

[@kratosspartan3411]

Idiot they are making human doom

[@chappie3642]

@@kratosspartan3411 stop, you clearly know nothing about the subject

[@classyassmothafucka8890]

1:55 Go home, robot... you're drunk

[@CaptainEndo]

It's really a great innovation. But kind of creepy. Looks like a beginning of a Terminator movie

[@valinorean4816]

@Hernando Malinche What are you talking about? Boston Dynamics has already started to sell its robot "Spot" commercially a few weeks ago!

[@Ashton.421]

Hernando Malinche not a century! Lol maybe 30-50 years. Technology is increasing so fast!

[@barrylyndon80]

Same thought

[@yankoelgueta1116]

They look cute actually

[@doppleganger7288]

Yeah...kind of creepy. As soon as the technology matures, it will be exported to hunt down "terrorists." In China's case, those people groups they have always wanted to eliminate. Then, the mature battle tested technology will be reimported to Western countries by politicians wanting to control the populace.

[@drunkcj4236]

1:38 That's what street dogs do to pretend haveing a broken leg for food😂😂😂

[@3dgiftz]

2:38 - Jumping onto test is awesome Make more videos on how it jumps and error recorded while jumping

[@gavin5861]

You guys should try putting shocks in the legs or slowing them right before impact to reduce noise and stress

[@GuiuGaldino]

Black mirror Season 04, Episode 05

[@mantas9259]

especialy the 3 leg walk with the fourtht one pointed forwards...

[@danielsteel5251]

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metalhead_%28Black_Mirror%29

[@LuisSierra42]

EXACTLY!! it's like that episode was actually written by a time traveler that came from the future to warn us

[@lunarface2952]

It also makes me thinking of the plot in the Black Mirror

[@amarojk]

Add facial recognition and a gun for a complete work.

[@OrangeyGlad]

The question is, who would win in a fight? The MIT Cheetah, or the Boston Dynamics Spit Mini? Also, I'm here before this video inevitably gets trending.

[@TheRibbonRed]

Awesoman121 1. Why would they fight? 2. Boston Dynamics, because their Spot Mini isn't blind and BD themselves has once been shutdown for the "irrational" fear of their tech being used as weapons.

[@Volker_A4]

Spot he has an arm and he doesn't just not fall. He can also pick himself up again.

[@Rottensteam]

TheRibbonRed Why?! Because robot fighting is cool, that's why.

[@TheRibbonRed]

Rottensteam I know, but both the Spot Mini and Cheetah ain't exactly cheap nor replaceable. Maybe once the day that Google pretends to fear come, then both of them may see battle.

[@stc2828]

Awesoman121 Spot mini is like a generation more advance for now...

[@secretperson698]

The best was jumping on the desk💖

[@soerensenkarl]

Makes me proud to be a student at MIT!

[@zmars5798]

we are soooo dead

[@kamranbashir4842]

death is just an illusion...

[@TheIldebrandoz]

@@kamranbashir4842 Death is the end of the unique and unrepeatable life we ​​have.

[@HN-vu8pp]

0:21 me warming up before training.

[@ralphargueta725]

It is amazing to observe convincing emotional movements that are simply physical simulations. The dynamics are stunning on many levels

[@tarunvenkatesh007]

Who else saw Metalhead episode from Blackmirror happening for real ?!

[@gooeysupermonster3061]

This Brought back traumatic memories of that episode...

[@shravanshetty19]

Yeah metalhead was terrific

[@tvrp3629]

Tech thing ❌ Best drum ✔ 🤣🤣

[@akali2927]

Not gonna lie... That robot got some serious beat!

[@alichank]

Friend: Hey give me coca cola Me: ok **gives Pepsi** Me: 0:57

[@BarBrothersKEraulMJ]

0:25 that beat tho

[@funnylawyer52]

R M lol

[@athok98]

0:58 way better 😂

[@mk_rexx]

shorea tinda 🅱🅰💲💲 🅱🅾🅾💲➕💶▶🔊🔊🔊

[@frictyfranq321]

D'you know why they showed the jumping on the table in slow-mo? So that our ears might not get burst by hearing the clamp.

[@epicGamer-po1oh]

1:58 siblings waking u up for no reason cause u r sleeping.

[@cocmastervivek4500]

2020: Hey look it's Cheetah Robot, Wow😱 2050: Hey Cheetah, let's hangout today

[@KrishAggarwalA]

MIT is my dream place. I will achieve it at any cost.

[@nagnusyo]

So powerful foot steps. Seems like angry!

[@GeoffWells]

Phenomenal progress!

[@vishveshtadsare3160]

So howzaa things?

[@suntzu1409]

2:01 they ask you how you are, and you just have to say that you're fine, when you're not really fine, but you just can't get into it because they would never understand.

[@pshakouri]

I like how he warmed up at the beginning....like Oh yeahh let's get these robot joints all nice and loose

[@vishaldey2662]

*MITan* u guyz are genius for thiz artificial innovation.... Salute 😘😘 .... *Jump point to be noted that itz far difficult when m saw bt thats cheeta done smoothly wow charm*

[@canyonoverland5003]

I, for one, welcome our robot overlords.

[@darshkejriwal9333]

That jumping was lit🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@autopsyjuice6648]

It looks so happy when it’s doing Pronk omg

[@Pritamsagar464]

its walking sound is like a perfect drum beat!

[@fk.sizzle5991]

"Ohh, mommy, can I have that one?"

[@roidroid]

Thats some good Pronking. U just got pronked bro, the camera's right there.

[@lastnamei]

Awesome!!! The Cheetah Jump was unbelievable.

[@AmitabhJangra]

Last Jump is awesome.

[@ChocoByte]

2:38 my favourite

[@deepeshpunetha6839]

On one side we are ruining the houses of animals, killing them, and on the other side we are making Robot animals. Wow!

[@thalinkimohan4969]

🤦

[@Satyasagar_das]

@@deepeshpunetha6839 😂😂😂😂 savage reply

[@Carlosramirez-he4zi]

@@deepeshpunetha6839 bark as much as you want you low life scoundrel idgaf 🤙

[@Satyasagar_das]

@@Carlosramirez-he4zi beta tu apne baap ko bhi yahi bolta tha 😂😂😂😂🤣

[@deepeshpunetha6839]

@@Carlosramirez-he4zi kutto ke liye bark krna bhi bht jaruri he

[@goldendemise3165]

This is like Boston dynamics robot. It's nice to see a new invention

[@suntzu1409]

Its 4 am and im trying to sleep KZbin: So you have chosen death

[@flutedna]

We are literally watching the starting of the end of human civilization. John Connor we need you!

[@navagharkiran5769]

Jando pailwan

[@GautamYadav-jb7xw]

Really amazed to see.. But what are we making is present already in nature.. Preserve that first

[@maxk4324]

Why not both?

[@GautamYadav-jb7xw]

@@maxk4324 why both?

[@maxk4324]

@@GautamYadav-jb7xw because having a machine with the agility and mobility of a cheetah but with the durability and controllability of a robot could be very useful for things like search and rescue, fire fighting, disaster relief (eg searching damaged buildings after earth quakes), and probably much more. However, robots are no replacement for the wonders of mother nature and so we should be protecting things like living cheetahs so that we always have them to appreciate and also to be able to study (from a distance) in order to improve robots like these.

[@GautamYadav-jb7xw]

@@maxk4324 animals train can do that and wonders done by them are no match to cheetah.. Well my saying is that why not conceptulaize greater machines, not just mimicing the natural beings . . What say??

[@maxk4324]

@@GautamYadav-jb7xw So first, a cheetah can't be trained to walk through a burning building unharmed, but a robot can be built to do that, as just one example. Second, evolution has spent millenia creating machines specifically optimized for certain tasks, so why spend all the extra effort trying to reinvent the wheel? Not to say that we don't make modifications to the design as needed, for example by adding reversible legs, but starting from scratch is a lot harder an in many cases unnecessary.

[@thumpted8417]

How is this the scariest and also least threatening thing I have ever seen

[@slashine1071]

The moral of this video:it’s incredible that natural organisms evolved legs on their own.

[@prashantvyas4318]

Ok terminator coming in few years aasta la vista

[@durgeshkshirsagar116]

Khaoge kya pasta 😂😂

[@Amjadkhan-ut4kb]

Are you guys making robotic drum sound? 🤨🤨🤔😆

[@mukut5ul]

Last jump in slow motion amazing

[@TomJerry12933]

I saw the early stuff and I was like "I thought they had this stuff down already back in 2015 or earlier even!" ...then I remembered that this is now what the robots can do while blind.

[@bunnybro5977]

1:14 I bet this is what everyone sees whenever MIT wants some new recruits "Come over, we got hella bots"

[@38zae]

The jumping part was halarious for some reason

[@damontan4749]

That jump at the end, the amount of work to program that

[@prithvirajdj]

He can see guys. He's just faking it & acting friendly. You have no idea. *You can feel his anger when he is pulled back after **2:14**.* They're just waiting for the sufficient number. Humanity will soon be doomed!

[@jeffsech]

When its handler yanked it back down the stairs I half expected it to turn around and whack him. "Stop that!"

[@glynemartin]

Prithvi Raj "He can see guys. He's just faking it & acting friendly. You have no idea. You can feel his anger when he is pulled back after 2:14. They're just waiting for the sufficient number. Humanity will soon be doomed!" _"....full of shit you are..."_ - Yoda.

[@prithvirajdj]

Glyne Martin I'll take a dump if you want..

[@glynemartin]

Prithvi Raj keep your culture at home....thanx much...

[@MrF4eable]

Nonsense. It’s got all his weight at once from falling it must use some force to get back. That’s like our legs, if you don’t use them when you fall like this, you are on the ground. Think before talking please...

[@siaaa3345]

So this is the robot that can do a backflip? I N T E R E S T I N G

[@ErkinovSardor]

Massachusetts institute of technology great institute

[@AkshanshShrivastava]

That 3 legged coordination was amazing

[@BlockChainDP]

2:13 La primera persona que morirá a manos de un Robot XD

[@crazycaucasian9342]

Ya'll assholes better stop being mean to these robots or you're going to cause terminator to happen.

[@swarloksamadder]

Man, the final thing was a blast...

[@raghavs1742]

Rearing or else taming a real cheetah would have been great job.🤣

[@krrk6337]

One question: Why?

[@abc321meins]

Because in 5 Years, when the parts are cheeper, this thing will deliver your pizza! :P And if you are unable to pay it'll chase you down. No, for real: Just imagine this thing mountet under a wheelchair for example. There would be no need for ramps anymore! The possibilitys are endless.

[@bobsmithy3103]

cus it's cool

[@abcdxx1059]

KR!RK coz people like you don't have the brain juice required

[@Moonlight-pk2st]

Cause we need to start with advanced little things before doing advanced "big" things, like humanoids.

[@nicejungle]

cos' we can

[@skilledgaming2626]

Person died me 😅 A robot get hit by a stick me 😢

[@derekhuang1701]

The last one was the sickest

[@deepakkumartheculinarian7090]

Wow.... This absolute brilliant

[@MikeAGarza]

Hey it's scary evil mad maker robots in future !

[@MasterCivilEngineering]

Step by step video solutions for civil engineering questions

[@TheKh65]

That robot will make a good drummer

[@awesometraders5400]

Arnold might freak out seeing this .

[@Aditya-bp3uc]

1:03 this robot can dance better than me.

[@Aegisltd]

2:26 It won't be because they become self aware, and the obvious conclusion that humans are a threat. It'll be because our mechanical friends will find old video of MIT & Boston Dynamics doing the "Push Recovery" test and this will PI55 them off. And that will be the catalyst for the end of the human race. None the less; great work MIT students!

[@barneymiller7894]

It will be a quantum computer that becomes self aware, these will just be its hive mind shock troops lol

[@shubhamwaghe7734]

I swear it was going to beat that guy very badly when he pulled the string second time but controlled it's emotion as well as it's movement.!

[@user-N20]

Pronk is my new favorite word.

[@mrcountdowncity1006]

SkyNet Cometh!!!

[@scaletta5847]

Why does it feels like i am watching animal abuse ?

[@mayur795]

Absolutely right! I also made similar comments!

[@hyunghochrischoi6561]

I presume this is the companion video for [MIT Cheetah 3: Design and Control of a Robust, Dynamic Quadruped Robot]!

[@chetan007ize]

This machine gets horror in Black mirror series

[@PureAwesomeMess]

Not sure why you'd need a four-legged robot that can barely climb up the stairs...

[@shankaranpillai9664]

What if we Humans were created the same way.

[@GauravSharma-rj9mx]

हमे क्या हम तो हिन्दू मुसलमान करके खुश है। ☺️😐😑

[@shakti1596]

To ye chij kon sa bada tagma hai

[@narayanavhale4514]

And here we begin.........

[@GauravSharma-rj9mx]

अरे भाइयो यहां भी वो ही सब शुरू कर दिया। अरे सब खुश रहो । दूसरे को गाली दे बिना सुकून नही मिलता क्या। हम ये बात पता नही कब समझेंगे की इंसान बुरा होता है। फिर वो हिन्दू हो या मुसलमान । हमने तो ये सब करके अपनी आधी ज़िन्दगी निकाल दी।आने वाली पीढ़ी को क्या सीख दी रहे है पता ही नही 😒🙏

[@krishnachoudhari3669]

Ooo dear..... MIT me bahot indians he . Professor hai MIT me hamare hi.. hindu musalman karke b ham bahot uppar.. or religion kka b dhyan rakhna padta. Robot banana hi tarakki manata hai to chhoti soch hai.. samajik tarakki b jaruri hai...

[@GauravSharma-rj9mx]

@@krishnachoudhari3669o dear....kbhi socha hai ki hmare engineer doctor foreign kyu jate hai...o dear...kbhi socha hai ki hmare yha MIT jaisi universities kyu nhi hai....sahi kha dear aapne...ki religion bhot zaroori hai...pr religion is a very private thing....agar wo aapk ghr se bahar nikl k dusre ko preshan krne lge to bilkul sahi nhi hota....jb religion k naam pe mob lynching ho jae to wi galat hai ya phir kashmiri pandito ka bahar nikala jae wo bhi glt hai....smjha dear...smjhe dear...

[@evrnkentliadm.]

ilk araba icat edildiğinde teknolojik olarak yetersizdi. bu projeninde bir zaman sonra hayatta en iyi yerini alacağına inanıyorum.

[@hoango1762]

Having a Vietnamese people was in the team. Wow that's awesome

[@saif8367]

The wonders are made in MIT

[@케어링-j9r]

Robot : I will remember you

[@covid-19ultrapromax25]

Hats off to animation tools