{"id":5630,"date":"2014-06-02T15:17:36","date_gmt":"2014-06-02T22:17:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=5630"},"modified":"2014-06-16T15:21:56","modified_gmt":"2014-06-16T22:21:56","slug":"run-robot-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2014\/06\/02\/run-robot-run\/","title":{"rendered":"Run Robot Run"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibtimes.co.uk\/koreas-dinosaur-robot-outruns-usain-bolt-1450595\" target=\"_blank\"><em>from International Business Times<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"color: #585858;\">Korea&#8217;s Dinosaur Robot Outruns Usain Bolt<\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic; color: #9e9e9e;\">By\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"reporter-name\" style=\"color: #f05032;\"><a class=\"reporter-name\" style=\"font-style: italic;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ibtimes.co.uk\/reporters\/mary-ann-russon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"author\">Mary-Ann Russon<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/chPanW0QWhA\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #222222;\">Scientists from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) have built a fast-running biped robot that can reach a top speed of 46 km\/hour (28.6mph) on a treadmill.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #222222;\">Inspired by the velociraptor \u2013\u00a0the predatory dinosaur which lived 75 million years ago, and was made infamous by Jurassic Park \u2013 the scientists decided to build a sprinting robot with two legs and a mechanism that works as a tail.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #222222;\">While Raptor is not as fast as\u00a0<a style=\"color: #cc0000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bostondynamics.com\/robot_cheetah.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Boston Dynamics&#8217; Cheetah<\/a>, the world&#8217;s reigning fastest legged robot, which has a top speed of 47 km\/hr, the new Korean robot can beat Olympic sprinter Usain Bolt, the fastest human ever whose top speed is estimated to be 43.92 km\/hr.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #222222;\">The two robots are also very different in the way they have been built.<\/p>\n<p>Cheetah is a four-legged quadroped robot powered by hydraulic actuators and is heavy, but the Raptor only has two legs, which are made from lightweight composite material, and it weighs just 3kg.<\/p>\n<p>The Raptor also has a &#8216;tail&#8217; \u2013 a spinning rod \u2013 that keeps its body stable as it navigates around and over obstacles, according to Jongwon Park, a PhD student at KAIST&#8217;s Mechatronics, Systems, and Control Laboratory.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibtimes.co.uk\/koreas-dinosaur-robot-outruns-usain-bolt-1450595\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at IBT<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from International Business Times Korea&#8217;s Dinosaur Robot Outruns Usain Bolt By\u00a0Mary-Ann Russon Scientists from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) have built a fast-running biped robot that can reach a top speed of 46 km\/hour (28.6mph) on a treadmill. Inspired by the velociraptor \u2013\u00a0the predatory dinosaur which lived 75 million years ago, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5630\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}