In a cheetah, the backbone acts as a spring that stores and releases energy as it bends and extends, allowing the cat to run at 97 km/h (60 mph) with great efficiency and perform prodigious leaps.

Facing embargoes and outdated jets, South Africa engineered a stunning solution: turning Mirage IIIs into cutting-edge supersonic fighters. The Atlas Cheetah emerged as a powerful symbol of adaptation ...

Both CHEETAH and ATLAS will also build upon control software and mechanical and electrical systems designed for PETMAN, and for the company's quadruped pack horse-like BigDog military robot.

Cheetah is said to run "faster than any existing legged robot and faster than the fastest human runners," while Atlas can "move through difficult terrain using human-like behavior," meaning ...

Meet Atlas, Cheetah's humanoid pal. Atlas is supposed to look more or less like the T-800 series of Terminators, minus the head.Its designers say it'll be able to walk like a human over rough ...

Atlas/Denel converted 38 Mirage IIIs to the Cheetah C variant from ex-Israeli airframes. This aircraft is seen just before the fleet’s retirement, and is armed with R-Darter active-radar missiles.

The Cheetah can zig zag as it runs and make tight turns as well as stop on a dime. The company is working on another robot called Atlas that looks like Hector minus a head.

Boston Dynamics, the Waltham-based robotics company that developed BigDog of YouTube fame, announced that it will begin work on two new robots: the Cheetah and a human-like robot called Atlas ...