MIT's Mini Cheetah robots are small quadrupedal robots capable of running, jumping, walking, and flipping. In a recently published video, the tiny bots can be seen roaming, hopping, and marching around a field and playing with a soccer ball. They're not consumer products, but MIT hopes that the Mini Cheetah's durable and modular design will make it an ideal tool for researchers. Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories.
MIT's Mini Cheetah robots are small quadrupedal robots capable of running, jumping, walking, and flipping. In a recently published video, the tiny bots can be seen roaming, hopping, and marching around a field and playing with a soccer ball. They're not consumer products, but MIT hopes that the Mini Cheetah's durable and modular design will make it an ideal tool for researchers. Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories.
I’m heading to my bunker!🤯🥺
You lot: 'oh no, we're screwed. (Insert movie reference)' Me: any horrible thing that a robot could do to us, we've already done to ourselves.
When is the adoption event? I’d welcome one...or a few of these cuties into our home. 😍😍
I predict that at some point in the future, people will say something along these lines: ‘Previous generations had a chance to stop them, but they didn’t. Instead they were obsessed with skin colour and genital type, they should have stopped the AI but didn’t. Now we’re slaves.’
Elementary, my dear Boston
Oh hell no
I mean unpopular opinion here but this is incredibly adorable, the way they emote is just so cute to me for some reason 😂
Wow this is incredible!!
I thought they were awesome until I saw all the radio controls.
Virtually indestructible?
nice flex ngl
I’d be more impressed if they did that without the line up of humans with remote controls behind them. autonomous
SpaceAbhi They can help cause search and rescue missions
Looks like Democrats.
Cut the funding for these dorks & make em go to animal shelters 🖕
AndrewYang
They are cute hahah i want one
Robot death dogs. I see you MIT
gordonkeith noooooooo
Not impressed
ExpandedP
JOKE AND FACT....1980S DIDNT....( TEACH US SHIT ) 😂🤣😄😆
DARPA is developing robotic soldiers to carry military equipment in altering situations. Eventually they will have robots just like they have drones in the air that will fight wars Boston Dynamics' Atlas Robot Can Do Parkour via YouTube
AndrewYang This the shit from black mirror
I Mean, They look pretty cool to me.
Indestructible? Challenge accepted.
We know the rest.
🍁 When they can shovel a drive way, ...call me. 🤓
To quote Dr. Malcolm:
That's pretty cool.
Love, Death and Robots
AndrewYang Amazing!
'Remote controlled' robots.
TerminatorDarkFate
Creepiest part is coming up, commando-style, from under the fallen foliage. Yikes! But also Amazing!
Call me when these nightmare freaks can be programmed to do all my housework. Until then...
Crazy
Looks like chubicki Tallahassee Cassie
You can tell the creation concept was thought of by young males. 'Virtually indestructible' & able to 'do back flips' are a young mans ideal. If women were to create them, they could cook & clean! (Whats a robot for, if not to help with lifes necessary chores?) Back flips, meh.
This is not creepy at all.
Hmm they kinda cute tho
Scary
I know y’all saw that episode of “Black Mirror”
Now do quantum computing
Ughhhhh. One after another ... First demogorgans, now backflipping soccer playing robots. Yo Chief HawkinsINChief we have a problem..
Wyd if they gang up on you and one of em says 'meep morp zeep zorp'
The military industrial complex is very pleased.
Indestructible? Can make homemade emp's easy!
rainnwilson what’d u think of this?
We've screwed
Love the idea, but pls make them look less creepy.
It’s happening
I for one welcome our new robot overlords.
God damn it these little shits are cute as hell
Give it five years and the fuckers will be killing us all in our sleep.
Unnatural. Robots should look like people, not Chihuahuas.
I’ll bet they can chase down criminals and subdue protesters too
I for one welcome our future overlords.
Pretty soon they’ll be mounting weapons on them. 👌🏼
Ummm
Nooooooooo
This nothing Russian Reagan robots take over the America podcast BigSteve207
When you are waaaaaaay to amazingly smart ....you can do this but technology can not give me four bars on my cell phone all the time...... go figure
I saw that episode. Nope!
Definitely no DARPA involvement I'm sure
MIT needs to be shot off this planet for making this
Robot puppies
This is the first thing I thought of when I saw the article 😫💀💀
I for one salute our future robotic overlords
Add a Doggy shell and teach them to play fetch
Haven’t you guys seen terminator dark fate? Stop.
We are all gonna die.
Just hope the future military is not a bunch of robots.
Great more info. New nightmares lol
That reminds me of a story. There was a kid who received a visit from a killer time traveling robot from the future, fought him off and the robot came back a second time to save him. You know what that time traveling robot told that kid? He said, “Epstein didn’t kill himself”
Cute dog bots
Oki I understand making a robot Dogo but why make It virtually indestructible that seems redundant unless your hoping to get military backing to make them use in war. And have we really not learn form fiction the possibles this end badly. Lollol
Virtually indestructible...
Even if these things are irrelevant when it comes, we should blame them for Doomsday.
Black Mirror who?
The point where Boston Dynamics releases Spot on MIT for having a similar idea.
Someone needs to stop those MIT students. They are the type of students parents should have stopped from going to college.
Omg black mirror is becoming reality
Fuck no!
This is a nope.from the island of no the coast of hell fqing no!
Black mirror episode where it Chase's that woman.
That’s a hard no. Too blackmirror for me. Nope. Nope. Nope.
What you do w an intelligent mind comes w clear understanding but you are going in the wrong direction fracking contaminates our water supply Do you understand what that does to you Are you Sick & Tired going down the wrong road abtTHAT
I, for one, welcome our adorable, tiny cheetah robot overlords.
Shouldn’t we be making an army of robots to clean up litter or plastic vs play soccer? You can’t even keep score anyway!
Yep we screwed
Wrong
You'd have thought they would have watched Battlestar Galactica, but okay. 🤔
ILL TAKE YOUR ENTIRE STOCK
VOTED FOR AndrewYang 2020!!!!
Looks like Black Mirror got one prediction right...
AndrewYang joerogan
What could possibly go wrong? (have NONE of these people read or watched any science fiction, like, EVER?!?)
medical91 Think the use of the word ARMY is disturbing.
Apparently no one is watching Black mirror
DavidVLynch 🙈
Now THIS is what true mad scientists do with their free time lol
AndrewYang Spooky
Forgive me for not caring one nano bit about it.
😳😳
this has the same energy as people in hoodies with the styrofoam heads
cmk256 were you behind this
Great, HMU when it can bring me coffee in the morning and fold my laundry
I've seen Black mirror with the dogs. We're doomed.
I wonder how theyd do around a horse racing track.
They wouldn't last 2 mins on the streets of London..
I’ve seen this episode of black mirror 🧐
Black Mirror : season 4 episode 5: Meathead .... the End is Nigh
It's already begun!
Bye bye humans. It wuz a good run.
blackmirror —- reality in 5-4-3-3.....
M
i don’t get why everybody think shit like this is so creepy like maybe this is a generational thing. we grew up with FURBIES, bro! THATS creepy! if they made furbies indestructible? terrifying but these little guys are BADASS and cool, maybe kinda funny/awkward, but not creepy
These things aren't scary at all
Let's put guns on them!
Time to pack up and leave to Mars
Yeah imma head out
'Virtually indestructible' Hmmm Meet the mk19 fully auto grenade launcher!
They're like cricket dogs without faces and I love them
AndrewYang Why they gotta be indestructible tho 😭
They're so cute wtf 😍 Like little metal puppies
I guess we’re gonna pretend we didn’t see S4 E5 of black mirror
Y’all really don’t be watching these movies 😭
I guess y’all need a refresher on that Black Mirror episode where these little indestructible metal pups hunt and kill humans.
Why ‘virtually indestructible’ why would you do that
Simon Says let's kill all these m************
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Indestructible but they can do a backflip...WTF?
how about we agree to make robots, and just not make them virtually indestructible
The mini cheetah’s are absolutely innovative. And fun to watch. Though I haven’t yet gotten my mind around next steps for a robotic cheetah.
And they will be weaponized, if not already,
These are cute y’all are mean
alizasherman Those are dogs, brant
Is this from the paedophile money they accepted?
Can we get to the part where we fucking them before they assimilate. If we cant genetically engineer catgirls. We can robotically engineer them
Just a normal day at MIT
‘Metalhead’ 🤦🏻♂️
mit thx for fast forward killing ur own kind
'virtually indestructible' did you try dropping it from a sky scrapper for research purposes?
Kate4Nh if you knew your spawn would destroy the world, should you drown it?
RyonBizark
Robots like these are being stockpiled by several countries and will be used in war very soon. There are bunkers full of these with weapons attached to kill other robots and humans.
‘virtually indestructible’ nah I don’t think so...
Wasn’t there that one Black Mirror episode about these things?
Ok but are they waterproof because
AndrewYang I could destroy that piece of shit sorry but I’m different
Creepy!
That's actually a prequal to a very scary episode of Black Mirror.
I think they’re adorable
Cute puppies
At this very moment, people all over the world are starving to death.
AndrewYang Judgement Day is one day closer.
Okay Skynet
Yeah, if you think this is scary... if you only knew what type of robots that are getting worked on.. lol
Whoa hadleyjleach mit
It's would be terrifying if it had an attack mode.
Very cool
It’s like importing Islamic refugees, we know what’s going to happen but we keep doing it anyways.
abbeyyacolia
katwoman_81 Robots, army, and 'virtually indestructible'? Nope Nope Nope I mean... All hail our robotic overlords!
These Robots look more like giant mechanical cockroaches that will be here long after we destroy Humanity with our cleverness. MATH
this some black mirror shit right here
They got nothing on BostonDynamics
Creepy.
That's totally wild ! Here we come, SKYNET !
Have any of y’all watched black mirror? This is the end.
This makes me think of the new TV show Emergence
I’m here for it!
HAVE WE LEARNED NOTHING FROM Schwarzenegger AND TERMINATOR?
Why make “virtuously indestructible” robots? I thought MIT was for smart people. That doesn’t sound too smart.
tEcHnOlOgY bAd fucking luddites
Omg give them heads 😑
They must be destroyed immediately!
AI is bad. Didn’t you people get the warning from The Terminator?
If kids with research dept $ made this I'm sure arms tech companies with Dept of Defense $ already have/could have in a matter of months some version of the Black Mirror dog. And humanity is still here
And what is the purpose of these new soulless metal creatures in a time when sustainability is vital? We have the brains to invent anything at all, but will it add to our ultimate survival or not? Or is it just simply something more to consume and give false affection towards?
Why would they do that?!
Can't not think of this Black Mirror episode:
Sad. Why not use their time and talent to help living, breathing, feeling animals that need help just to survive in this world. 😥 Please.
There will be a spiritual “split” before any “public” singularity.
Judgement day,is coming!!
This is the only robot dog I want or need.
Well that’s going to be weaponized.
one big medieval net . done.
We are the most self destructive species on the planet... we literally saw on BlackMirror S4 Ep5 “Metalhead” how this all played out. Anyone who doesn’t think this will end this way is lying to themselves...
Gee I wonder what that technology will be utilised for...
Kow Tow !
How can these guys NOT see this is a problem... of Humanity
AndrewYang 🤔 How will they take over my business or my job ?
My Manhattan kitchen when I turn on the lights.
So soon we won’t need soldiers in most environments as we will have land based and drone based autonomous capability
Black Mirror nightmares!!!!
Did nobody see terminator? Westworld? Jurassic Park?
That backflip though is Lit
AndrewYang MIT made an army....
Judgement Day
Nope
Thanks. I hate it.
OreoStallion you seem like someone who would be terrified of this headline and article LOL
At the moment they are controlled by a human with a remote control...but slowly & surely as we evolve them we will make battlestar galactica look more like a documentary than science fiction.
This is nothing compares to the T-800 models that are being tested in Area 51.
No - what do we need that for.
philippabrawn
Wait... why would you make them virtually indestructible? Are you trying to set yourself up? 🤣 cool tho
The end is near BlackMirror rip
A mi esto no me mola nada
a ppl low
impressive. How long till we get much more advanced androids?
Nope. Nope. Hell to the No!
Announcing... the new K-9!
Indestructible? I wonder how they would fare against a flat battery or a fishing net.
Didn't these people take any lessons from 'Terminator' or 'The Matrix'? Or, were those movies warning us in advance of what is to happen? See, e.g., episode 1 of ' The Lone Gunman'.
Coming soon
I'm scared
Freaky
I have a strong urge to put an axe through one of these. And I've watched enough sci-fi to know that one day I'll need to.
It’s scary and cute at the same time🤷🏼♀️
Scary! Future military robots
Indestructible ? Just hand me a screw driver then tell me it’s indestructible , or a drill or any other power tool... People fear mongering over robots need to calm.
😨 dont tell sarah connor!
And when you attach guns to them?
That's some skynet shit right here
Great, one day they will save a lot of human lives, nothing to fear here, the west at its best!
I, for one, welcome our new robot overlords.
Death to machines, life to the living
Not sure if using RC units qualifies them as robots. The Terminator is much less scary if it has to be followed around by someone with a little controller that needs four AA batteries...
I remember that the Titanic was described as 'virtually indestructable', remind me how that ended up!
AndrewYang soo y'all haven't seen black mirror?
Parkour.
SpotShopMedia Possibly the most boring and depressing tweet for the year
Why are we doing this? it's really not going to end well
AndrewYang I honestly did not expect to find them so cute.
AndrewYang Black mirror anyone?
The stuff of nightmares!
Show offs.
Kushie03 Eventually those indestructible cheetah bots will be cutely playing soccer with human heads
Oh.....ok....such a good use of funds/time 🙄
Whoa that’s so ‘Cutting edge’ cute!! 😃
The end has finally come. I'm ready.
The battery bottleneck makes me laugh tho reeeeeeeeeeee/propaganda
They’ll soon be doing synchronised anarchy
Dude... humans really are stupid. So many horror stories warned us not go after creating robots and we are still doing it..
Black mirror episode
It’s like they have never seen Terminator ?!? WTF people.
It’s all fun and games till kids in computer programming and kids in engineering make an A.I. with adaptive learning, enabling it to gain a mind of its own, that is capable of hacking into the United States and Russian Ballistic Missile systems and then eradicating the human race
CrewCorridor CorridorDigital check it out. SirWrender
lakkineni Terminator is coming ☠
They make a toy puppy that yaps and does a back flip.
I want one for a guard robot, while I go for walks. ☺️
I fixed my VCR once.
Creepy
This is all I see...
Shook.
No. Just, no.
“Immigrants are taking our jobs” -2019 “Robots are taking our jobs” -2030
AndrewYang Here's a video of the 2017 Robo Cup. The robots still move super slow, but the technology is getting better, constantly. Watch out athletes!
Ngl these little bots are hella cute
AndrewYang How adorable... They'll look even more adorable after the military contractor that hired MIT welds a few rifles onto them.
They are all being remote controlled why is everyone making this out to be something special? It's not ai it's people that you literally see all holding controllers...
Who’s going to buy them to do that? They will be a weapon
I feel like we’ve seen this before.
Looks like someone finally found a use for the XboxOne . Boredom leads to all sorts of weirdness.
Gotta be honest. Those things are terrifying
y tho?
If you’ve played a video game, you’ve probably seen similar AI frolicking.
My oh my, i wish i would be alive in 100 years
Low key terrifying.
Sorry, but this is just mechanical engineering. This is not even pkayingvthe same sport as Kurzweil's AI singularity
This is not going to end well
Another milestone in human evolution!
AmericanScoggin Not watching video but I will get my truck and flatten them!!
Nope
You see tiny cheetah robots, I see our future overlords.😱😱😱
AndrewYang Everyone will laugh until they show up with mounted weaponry
so much NOPE
Have you guys not seen Black Mirror
That’s just barely on the line between cute and scary. It’s still cool though. But they should probably pay them to make the possibility of a robot uprising less likely.
Ok, at least give us a few weeks with the new Terminator movie before this techreview
Wheres the video love to see how good artificial intelligence
Are they really robots if they are controlled by a remote control? If that's the case, these guys are way behind the Tyco Rebound.
That's the best thing I've seen all day!!! 🤣🤣🤣
And people are worried about zombies 🤦🏼♂️
It all cool till some billionaires get ahold of it.
AndrewYang Heh 😅 this is fine
AI has the cognitive ability of an earthworm 😅
'Virtually indestructible' I doubt those could run after one good whack with a bat to a leg
The US Army is watching this video intently. Imagine an army of intelligent, mobile claymore mines.
Destroy them immediately
Reminds me of a particularly scary Black Mirror episode.
So black mirror called this shit QueenLeyz
Huh, weird, looks suspiciously like Boston dynamics spot robots
Headless, mechanical, icky, weirdness!
I've seen black mirror, I know the risks but...I want one
Creepy AF
Uh, scientists, CAN YOU STOP MAKING INDESTRUCTIBLE KILLER ROBOTS PLEASE!
No thanks. I’ll take an actual dog 🐶 pets
AndrewYang Great. Thats just what our Robot Overlords are going to need. Cheetah robots that can chase use down and then kick our head around & do backflips to celebrate. Thanks !
AndrewYang All this robo-tech bullshit is getting funneled straight into the US military where they’ll get these shiny nightmares tuned up into right proper kiling machines. Take your job? Nah. Take your life.
Almost there
They don't look tiny to me. Can they withstand the front end of a 58 buick roadmaster? How about the kinetic energy of a 12 gauge shotgun round to the nuts? 1 other thing, do they have teeth?
AndrewYang KILL THEM ALL WITH FIRE IMMEDIATELY!
Aha!! Now, we have a back-up plan if trump refuses to leave the WH.
I’m terrified. Is everyone else terrified?
...but why?
Its all fun and games until someone gets their eye poked out
Bet the price is coming way down too. Those are the big singularity points, when you cost more than it.
did you just say 'virtually indestructible' cheetah robots?
Keyword: army
Who cares? Build robots that do the jobs Americans don't want to do. These are just toys for rich kids.
There’s a couple movies that told us this was a bad idea
One film comes to mind....I, Robot
There have been soooooo many movies on why not to build these things... Come on MIT Pay attention.
Just give me a metal bat, let’s put This indestructible to the test. Not today sky net
Like that Emergence show. Scary as hell!
“Indestructible” You what? I’ve seen walmart drones that could survive a harsher kick.
not gonna lie they kinda cute tho 😳😳 in the most non-heterosexual way 😳😳
Creepy
Wow MIT is the devil
Burn them all and destroy the research notes
“virtually indestructible” seemed to be the only words that stuck out to me
AndrewYang Indestructible cheetah robots and they’re wasting them playing soccer?
Soldiers or spies?
AndrewYang Well this isnt terrifying
AndrewYang We are doomed.
BIG ROBOT KITTY ❤️
Yeah, so, they made the robot killing machine from the MetalHead episode of BlackMirror... Succomb to the robot overlords, I guess?
BostonDynamics toys are cooler
Lot more fun hunting and shooting at those tin cans than shooting grazing deer.
I like how people be like 'this is cool and all but what if they decide to kill us' do you really think the person behind the code is implementing that into the program
Awww they're adorable 😍
If we can make these robots, we can figure out Medicare 4 All and reparations for enslavement and civil rights violations. We got big brains, let’s use them.
i watched this on youtube on the tv and laughed so hard that i started coughing like a lot
The robots: *backflips out of pile of leaves* Me: NOPE. NOPE. NOOOOOPE!!!!
Nope nope nope
AndrewYang We are fucked
I love them, pleaee tell me they all have names?
AndrewYang Yo these mofos haven’t watched Terminator and it shows
AndrewYang ...they are going to mount guns on to them....
omg doggos !!!
So I need to shoot for what? Center mass or like a leg? Just Incase if a takeover?
Key word army. metalgear
DemocratGrandma O MG...I love these...
Good then they can be made to fight the wars with the wrong countries that Trump starts
Ad Victorium.
AndrewYang So... they can't make a cell phone that won't shatter when you drop it from 3 feet up... only indestructible killer dog robots from Black Mirror... I understand.
AndrewYang Let’s see it vs 12 gauge double ought buck
This will not end well for us.
AndrewYang why are we doing this to ourselves?
AndrewYang Ban these Muthafuckas. They will assassinate us!
How about we don’t do this.
AndrewYang I've seen this episode of Black Mirror. Pls stop
AndrewYang Black Mirror did a show about this and it was horrifying.
we’re doomed.
Skynet... it's happening.
Unless they have teeth and spots I’m not interested.
For years, the 1% have had to rely on politicians and sycophants to shield them because they don't have the numbers. These robots are perfect for the rich and their private security forces.
AndrewYang
AndrewYang Holly shit, I know MIT is the pioneer of smart engineer but man, they're releasing more and more cute robot. I want a fleet of those for my kids.
Geez for anyone who has seen back mirror this is really scary!
AndrewYang Is anyone asking for these?
AndrewYang
AndrewYang Soccer players, they're coming for your jobs
AndrewYang AndrewYang Yang2020 HumanityFirst
AndrewYang 'Child destroys 'virtually indestructible' toy in less 15 seconds'
AndrewYang Industructible to the nerd brigade over there maybe. I could do that thing in with a cheery bomb
AndrewYang Black Mirror is real
The words indestructible and robot shouldnt ever be a thing. 😬
AndrewYang Um, stop. Pls.
AndrewYang Look at all those bad trade deals
AndrewYang pour water and aqua regia on those sheetas.
ROBOTS
They are the equivalent of a wild moose
Dude...It's the nanobots you have to worry about...
So...maybe head injuries in football are a thing of the past now. Good job!
How much for one of these?
Makes me want steel penetrating rounds...
Throughout history, what ultimately topples empires is their final inability to control expansive borders and territories. This phenomenon has also prevented one empire from conquering the whole world. Weaponized robots will someday solve that problem.
What amazes me is all the people in the background behind the laws ignoring this robot circus!
If I saw a pack of those robots, and I mean pack like pack of wolves, I would sprint in the opposite direction.
Robots are coming to our homes and other places that will change the way we used to be ?
Hello! BlackMirror! Anyone see the resemblance
Just give me a baseball bat
But why?
not impressed..remote control. no diff than a stuffed barking dog.
Why are they so cute!? I want one.
Can they at least give them heads to make them a little less creepy
This is actually so cute wtf
So cool can we all take a minute to appreciate the long nights spent by an engineer to make this possible, absolutely spectacular
Can they dust, vacuum, weed, rake and walk the dog?
Ok but I need 100 of these to fuel my army of cute patrol. Something's cute? One of these awesome robots shows up to wherever you are and gives you a sticker saying it's cute and a free gift card to whatever store is relatable to said cute thing.
Can I pet your dog's?
ToTheTopCarlos thenewsjunkie Have you seen this
blackmirror fuck
It’s the chattering sound that’s equally disconcerting.
There's gonna be a lot A.i. Technology coming out for next generation
That's cool but I have a forklift I can run them over with and a plasma cutter soooo bring it
robots? hardly :-) they are clearly remote controlled, everyone in this shit has a hand held controller 'driving' them like little land based drones .. FakeNews
They are awesome, and, cute, and alittle scary in the sense of robots actually taking almost ALL human jobs away from regular people without Super, brilliant brains like those from MIT.
USA army right now
SkyNet became self aware
king_coriander
Somebody tell Bill burr hee hee
okay black mirror
World domination next
Jeeze
yanggang
They need heads.
How do I get a bunch and how do I program them?
If there's not a soccer match between two teams of robots wearing jerseys it's a missed opportunity.
But can they love? I think not.
Cool, Man Utd should probably sign a couple of them.
How do you kill them? Asking for a friend.
These things will be killing all of us in about 8 years. Just like in the movies, you all are making them indestructible!
These jawns do not look like they’re aware of the Prime Directives and I would like to opt out thank you.
Nightmare.
Sometimes I think humanity is like a teenager that was given the keys to the family car a little too early.
Nothing new - Already saw this on Back Mirror Oh wait... 😬
🚧BEWARE THE FENCE SITTER💺
Could have sworn I saw something like this in a horror movie😳
Cute
Virtually indestructable...all that’s needed is to take out one leg.
It's always fun to see technology constantly improving as time goes by .
AndrewYang
Runaway (1984) Tom Selleck anyone? robots Friyay future looking good? Another tech that could go either way🍻
Hell no 😱 BlackMirror
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