1.0The Escapisthttps://www.escapistmagazine.comMarshall Lemon Legacy Authorhttps://www.escapistmagazine.com/author/fanghawk/rich600338<blockquote class="wp-embedded-content" data-secret="KXRVoOagGF"><a href="https://www.escapistmagazine.com/abandon-all-hope-robots-can-now-jump-over-walls/">Abandon All Hope – Robots Can Now Jump Over Walls</a></blockquote><iframe sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted" src="https://www.escapistmagazine.com/abandon-all-hope-robots-can-now-jump-over-walls/embed/#?secret=KXRVoOagGF" width="600" height="338" title="“Abandon All Hope – Robots Can Now Jump Over Walls” — The Escapist" data-secret="KXRVoOagGF" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" class="wp-embedded-content"></iframe><script type="text/javascript"> /*! This file is auto-generated */ !function(c,d){"use strict";var e=!1,o=!1;if(d.querySelector)if(c.addEventListener)e=!0;if(c.wp=c.wp||{},c.wp.receiveEmbedMessage);else if(c.wp.receiveEmbedMessage=function(e){var t=e.data;if(!t);else if(!(t.secret||t.message||t.value));else if(/[^a-zA-Z0-9]/.test(t.secret));else{for(var r,s,a,i=d.querySelectorAll('iframe[data-secret="'+t.secret+'"]'),n=d.querySelectorAll('blockquote[data-secret="'+t.secret+'"]'),o=new RegExp("^https?:$","i"),l=0;l<n.length;l++)n[l].style.display="none";for(l=0;l<i.length;l++)if(r=i[l],e.source!==r.contentWindow);else{if(r.removeAttribute("style"),"height"===t.message){if(1e3<(s=parseInt(t.value,10)))s=1e3;else if(~~s<200)s=200;r.height=s}if("link"===t.message)if(s=d.createElement("a"),a=d.createElement("a"),s.href=r.getAttribute("src"),a.href=t.value,!o.test(a.protocol));else if(a.host===s.host)if(d.activeElement===r)c.top.location.href=t.value}}},e)c.addEventListener("message",c.wp.receiveEmbedMessage,!1),d.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded",t,!1),c.addEventListener("load",t,!1);function t(){if(o);else{o=!0;for(var e,t,r,s=-1!==navigator.appVersion.indexOf("MSIE 10"),a=!!navigator.userAgent.match(/Trident.*rv:11\./),i=d.querySelectorAll("iframe.wp-embedded-content"),n=0;n<i.length;n++){if(!(r=(t=i[n]).getAttribute("data-secret")))r=Math.random().toString(36).substr(2,10),t.src+="#?secret="+r,t.setAttribute("data-secret",r);if(s||a)(e=t.cloneNode(!0)).removeAttribute("security"),t.parentNode.replaceChild(e,t);t.contentWindow.postMessage({message:"ready",secret:r},"*")}}}}(window,document); </script> MIT and DARPA’s Cheetah Robot has been upgraded to autonomously jump over obstacles and walls. You probably still thought you had a safe place to hide from the robot apocalypse, didn’t you? Well thanks to recent upgrades to MIT’s Cheetah robot, you’ll have to rewrite your survival plans from scratch. After breaking all kinds of speed records last year, MIT has provided the Cheetah with new algorithms to jump over obstacles 40 centimeters tall – making it the first robot capable of jumping over walls. What’s that? 40 centimeters doesn’t sound like much? You may laugh, but if the next […]http://cdn.themis-media.com/media/global/images/library/deriv/923/923954.gif