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  MIT cheetah robot lands the running jump - Duration: 108 seconds.

  • 4 years ago
  • 17,503,193 views

  In a leap for robotic development, the MIT researchers who built a robotic cheetah have now trained it to see and jump over hurdles as it runs — making this the first four-legged robot to run and j...
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  Visualizing video at the speed of light — one trillion frames per second - Duration: 2 minutes, 47 seconds.

  • 8 years ago
  • 7,884,342 views

  MIT Media Lab researchers have created a new imaging system that can acquire visual data at a rate of one trillion frames per second. That's fast enough to produce a slow-motion video of light tra...

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  Small cubes that self-assemble - Duration: 4 minutes, 12 seconds.

  • 6 years ago
  • 5,134,688 views

  Known as M-Blocks, the robots are cubes with no external moving parts. Nonetheless, they're able to climb over and around one another, leap through the air, roll across the ground, and even move wh...

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  MIT Robotic Cheetah - Duration: 2 minutes, 34 seconds.

  • 5 years ago
  • 3,292,306 views

  MIT researchers have developed an algorithm for bounding that they've successfully implemented in a robotic cheetah. (Learn more: http://mitsha.re/YCipV)
  
  The MIT Cheetah 2 contains the custom elec...

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• 2:49

  Vision-free MIT Cheetah - Duration: 2 minutes, 49 seconds.

  • 1 year ago
  • 2,741,945 views

  MIT's Cheetah 3 robot can now leap and gallop across rough terrain, climb a staircase littered with debris, and quickly recover its balance when suddenly yanked or shoved, all while essentially ...

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• 1:45

  Backflipping MIT Mini Cheetah - Duration: 105 seconds.

  • 1 year ago
  • 2,102,621 views

  MIT'S new mini cheetah robot is the first four-legged robot to do a backflip. At only 20 pounds the limber quadruped can bend and swing its legs wide, enabling it to walk either right side up or up...

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• 4:43

  Mathematics at MIT - Duration: 4 minutes, 43 seconds.

  • 5 years ago
  • 2,001,932 views

  Mathematics has played an important part at MIT since the founding of the Institute. Mathematics occupies a core intellectual position at MIT, an institution that is well known for its leadership i...

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  One of the strongest lightweight materials known - Duration: 2 minutes, 17 seconds.

  • 3 years ago
  • 1,513,775 views

  A team of MIT engineers has successfully designed a new 3-D material with five percent the density of steel and ten times the strength, making it one of the strongest lightweight materials known. (...

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• 2:05

  Engineering a second skin - Duration: 2 minutes, 5 seconds.

  • 3 years ago
  • 1,147,348 views

  Scientists at MIT, Massachusetts General Hospital, Living Proof, and Olivo Labs have developed a new material that can temporarily protect and tighten skin, and smooth wrinkles. With further develo...

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  A Moment in Time: Time capsule found during construction at MIT - Duration: 6 minutes, 21 seconds.

  • 4 years ago
  • 1,064,671 views

  Back in the early stages of construction for MIT.nano, members of the crew stumbled upon something that clearly didn't belong: A time capsule buried in 1957 as part of the dedication to the Compton...

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• 1:27

  MIT Students Write Pi - Duration: 87 seconds.

  • 4 years ago
  • 940,482 views

  In honor of Pi Day we asked MIT students to write as many digits of π from memory.
  
  Watch more videos from MIT: http://www.youtube.com/user/MITNewsOffice?sub_confirmation=1
  
  The Massachusetts Insti...

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• 5:27

  LIGO Detects Gravitational Waves - Duration: 5 minutes, 27 seconds.

  • 4 years ago
  • 938,316 views

  After a decades-long quest, The MIT-Caltech collaboration LIGO Laboratories has detected gravitational waves, opening a new era in our exploration of the universe.
  
  Read more: http://news.mit.edu/2...

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