Cheetah-Software

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mech422·Dec 8, 2021

How does this relate to MIT's mini-cheetah(1)? A quick search didn't turn up any plans/code for the cheetah except some simulator software(2). Is this an open source 'work-alike' ? 1) https://biomimetics.mit.edu/ 2) https://github.com/mit-biomimetics/Cheetah-Software edit: I don't think the cheetah plans are actually open source ?

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reportingsjr·Jun 20, 2021

Not industrial espionange. This robot is heavily based off of the MIT mini cheetah, which most of the design for is opensource (e.g. [0], [1]). Ben Katz has an amazing blog[2] which if you dig through you can read about a lot of the design decisions and testing for the mini cheetah. Funny enough, after designing the mini cheetah for his master's thesis Ben went to work for Boston Dynamics (I think he started there two or three years ago). 0: https://github.com/mit-biomimetics/Cheetah-Software 1: https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/118671 2: https://build-its-inprogress.blogspot.com/

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