MIT researchers have developed a blind robot called Cheetah 3 that can navigate rough terrain, climb staircases filled with debris, leap over obstacles, and gallop across unpredictable surfaces. The robot provides access to dangerous areas for search and rescue operations. Future work aims to add sight controls and extend the robot's limbs to improve terrain exploration for disaster response and search and rescue applications.

1. FA102a,
Research and Speculative
Product/Service Development
Terrain Exploration Via Robot Janel Santana

2. Assignment One, Research
“MIT’s Cheetah 3 blind robot can climb a staircase littered with debris,
leap, and gallop across rough terrain”
http://www.kurzweilai.net/mits-cheetah-3-blind-robot-can-climb-a-staircase-littered-with-debris-leap-and-gallop-across-rough-terrain
Terrain Exploration Via Robot Janel Santana

3. Assignment One, Research
-Access to disaster zones and/or dangerous,
inaccessible environments by way of “blind
locomotion”
http://news.mit.edu/2018/blind-cheetah-robot-climb-stairs-obstacles-disaster-zones-0705
Terrain Exploration Via Robot Janel Santana

4. Assignment One, Research
Terrain Exploration Via Robot Janel Santana
http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/97236
“The generation of high-speed running quadrupedal robots jump
to clear terrain obstacles of up to 40 cm in height within a single
control framework.”

5. Assignment One, Future Product or Service
Terrain Exploration Via Robot Janel Santana
Development of Robotic Locomotion
- Search and Rescue Aid
- Addition of sight controls
- Functional Limb extension