This pooch can really fly.
A robotic dog developed by a South Korean tech company has set a new record by running a 100-meter dash in under 20 seconds, Guinness World Records said this week.
HOUND, a four-legged faux pup built at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology in Daejeon, made the dash in 19.87 seconds with an average speed of 11.26 mph, Guinness said this week.
“In simulation, it can accelerate to even higher speeds, but we haven’t tested it in the real world yet,” HOUND’s designer, Young-Ha Shin, told the outlet.
“All of these movements were achieved with a single [motor] controller in the simulation through reinforcement learning,” he said. “In order to push the limits of an actuator, motor characteristics were incorporated into the simulation to make the environment as close to the real world as possible.”
The mechanical mutt, the product of the Korean academy’s Dynamic Robot Control and Design Laboratory, made his record-setting run on Oct. 26
The 99-pound robot still has a way to go to match a two-legged human — Jamaica sprinter Usain Bolt still holds the 100-meter world record with his 9.58-second run in 2009.
HOUND, a robot dog developed by researchers in South Korea, set a record by running a sub-20-second 100 meters. X/@GWR
Guinness didn’t say whose record HOUND beat, but a two-legged robot in Oregon ran 100 meters in 24.73 seconds. X/@GWR
It’s also unclear what the previous record was because Guinness did not post it.
Last year, MIT reported that its four-legged robot, Cheetah, had reached a dizzying 28.3 mph, surpassing even Bolt’s top speed of 27.78 mph, the Massachusetts school claimed.
However, Cheetah’s developers did not post a 100-meter time for their creation.
Researchers at Oregon State University unveiled a two-legged robot that t named Cassie that clocked a 100-meter dash in 24.73 seconds, according to Interesting Engineering.
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