Cheetah, The fastest robot in the planet

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Funded By DARPA's Maximum Mobility and Manipulation program, which seeks to create and demonstrate significant scientific and engineering advances in robot mobility and manipulation capability,Boston Dynamics have developed the Cheetah.This Robot is now dubbed as the fastest legged robot in the  planet.

The Cheetah set a new record for a legged robots with a maximum speed of 18miles per hour breaking the record 13.2 miles per hour set in 1989.

Here's the video from http://www.youtube.com/