The world's first four-legged robot backflips! MIT's mini cheetah shows off new skills

Wen Geng from Maihao Temple
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On the campus of MIT in Boston, a robot demonstrated a brand new skill: a backflip!

MIT says this is the world's first quadruped robot that can do a backflip.

Change your main perspective and feel this backflip.

The robot, called Mini Cheetah, comes from the lab of Associate Professor Sangbae Kim. This big brother of the Mini Cheetah is a 40kg robot with the strength of a small car. Kim felt that the behemoth was too dangerous to leave the lab, so he and his team developed this 9kg mini version.

In addition to backflips, this robot has another ability: it is not afraid of being kicked.

Of course, it can still be kicked down. However, after being kicked down, the mini cheetah can still turn over and stand up~

It moves quite fast, twice as fast as an average person's walking speed, and can move at a variety of paces.

There is this ordinary one.

There are also some jumping around~

But to be honest, the robot is not very stable at the moment. Two days ago, when celebrating the opening of the new Schwarzman School of Computing, the robot crashed after performing its second backflip...

The solution is also very simple: shut down and restart.

In the video released by this team, the last part also shows many failure scenes, such as failed somersaults, or problems with joints when falling from a low altitude.