This week we've seen a pilotless passenger-plane hit the British skies, the last barrier to human cloning be breached, and we've found a large cache of water, untouched by the rest of the world for at least one billion years, buried 1.5 miles deep within the Earth.And as if that wasn't enough, the world's first lab-grown burger made from bovine ...

An ongoing robotics project at MIT aiming to recreate the gait of a cheetah is sharing a new video showing off the latest progress. There's a long way to go before anyone would call it catlike, but it's impressive nevertheless.The Biomimetic Robotics Lab at MIT is attempting to create things much like those being made by the more well-known Boston ...

Robots used to deal with roadside bombs and IEDs are to be part of the huge security operation at next year's football World Cup.

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MIT's Cheetah The robot can course at 22 kilometers per hour. Boston Dynamics' Cheetah robot may be the fastest, but MIT's version of the DARPA-backed quadruped robot is proving to be the most efficient. In a newly released video, MIT's Biomimetic Robotics Lab shows off it's new and improved Cheetah, which can move along at a respectable 13.7 miles per ...