A cheetah bot unveiled in 2012 can run at speeds of 28.3 mph (45.5 km/h), which is 0.5 mph faster than Olympian Usain Bolt's fastest 20 meter split, noted Boston Dyanmics, the company developing the robot in conjunction with the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).
Getting the mechanical cheetah up to this speed required researchers to improve the computer instructions that control its legs and back, whose flexible design are key to its speed, IEEE Spectrum reported.
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