Happy Friday! DARPA Built a Robot That Runs Faster Than Olympic Sprinters

And So It Begins

Susana Polo

Published: Sep 7, 2012 09:36 am

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“To be fair, keep in mind that the Cheetah robot runs on a treadmill without wind drag and has an off-board power supply that it does not carry,” admitted Boston Dynamics in a press release. “So [100-meter-dash-record-setting Usain] Bolt is still the superior athlete.”

Boston Dynamics went on to say that they planned to work through all of these hurdles in the next year, so that’s reassuring.

(via /.)

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Susana Polo thought she'd get her Creative Writing degree from Oberlin, work a crap job, and fake it until she made it into comics. Instead she stumbled into a great job: founding and running this very website (she's Editor at Large now, very fancy). She's spoken at events like Geek Girl Con, New York Comic Con, and Comic Book City Con, wants to get a Batwoman tattoo and write a graphic novel, and one of her canine teeth is in backwards.