Gadgetory

a robotic startup in florida claims to have built the fastest running robot in the world outrunner the six legged machine that can run up to 45 miles per hour on a treadmill and 25 miles per hour outdoors the company behind outrunner is raising 150 thousand dollars on Kickstarter and the creators say they'll stage a race for the world's fastest robots if they make that goal so who would win MIT set a speed record in 1989 with a robot known only as the planar biped it reached speeds of 13.1 miles per hour but only when running in circles while tethered to a pole that record held for 23 years until was broken by cheetah a robot built by Boston Dynamics the company that was recently acquired by Google cheetah can hit 28 point 3 miles per hour on a treadmill faster than Olympic runner Usain Bolt it needs a power tether however the unleashed version of the cheetah called wildcat can only run up to 16 miles per hour that still beats mi t--'s current four-legged robot also named cheetah which clocks in at thirteen point seven miles per hour when indoors and tethered elsewhere in quadrupeds the Italian Institute of Technology is working on the high q-- a versatile animal like robot that can squat rear up and jump it's not that fast though it only runs up to four point four miles per hour over in humanoids the toyota partner robot can hit 4.3 miles per hour beating Honda's Osmo which can run up to 4 miles an hour meanwhile there are experiments with robots that run on quote wegg's wheel legs or wing legs that imitate bipedal running with spokes and some of those can reach up to 6 miles per hour right now it looks like outrunner may have a lock on the land speed record at least outdoors but with all these creative approaches we'll have to see a race before we know for sure