Thursday, September 6, 2012

Defense Department Creates Robot That Outruns Olympian Usain Bolt

I wouldn't want to try to out run this, would you


Department of Defense can now run faster than Olympic gold medalist Usain Bolt.

The Cheetah robot – developed by the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency – broke its own land speed record of 18 mph Wednesday by going 28.3 mph in a 20-meter split.

Bolt, who set the world record in the 100 meters with a 9.58 run in 2009, reached a peak speed of 27.78 mph during a 20-meter split in the World Athletics Championship.

The video posted by DARPA on its website shows the Cheetah robot hitting the new “world-record” mark before losing