Vision-free MIT Cheetah ( aka Blind Spotmini-knockoff )

[Xerios]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZ1DaQgg3lE

Looks pretty close to Boston Dynamic's Spotmini, does all of this without any cameras

[Corn]

It's a pretty big deal that this thing is blind, I wouldn't call it a "spot mini knockoff"

[Curls]

When is the Aurelnauts parody

[OvB]

Boston Dynamics started from MIT researchers, although it was called the Leg Lab back then. I don't know for certain but the MIT Biomimetics Robotics lab is probably the spiritual successor to the lab that spun off Boston Dynamics.

[ignhelper]

how long before we can fuck it

[Samperson123]

Oh now they're bullying a blind robot? The robot uprising can't come soon enough.

[neesu]

No, look at those graceful pronks.
How long before we can pat it on the head?

[Medal12]

The reversible legs and the table jump at the end were the most impressive in the video.
I wonder how they tracked where to jump without a camera or location system, maybe Cheetah was pre-placed and set to do a jump motion with so much height and then used it's algorithm to normalize it's legs when the back ones came in contact with the table, just a thought.
Also, I feel like Spot mini wouldn't accidentally stomp my feet over and over going up the stairs thanks to it's camera.