Massachusetts uni develops robots similar to machines in Black Mirror

MIT's recent project by Department of mechanical engineering wherein y developed 4 legged robots called mini Cheetahs have drawn a similarity to robots shown in Netlfix's original web series, Black Mirror. Black Mirror, a show by Charlie Brooker, showcases a dystopian view of future through techlogy in modern world and in one of episodes titled Metalhe in fourth season of web series, showed a woman being chased by a scary four-legged robot.

Mini Cheetahs

According to reports, robots were seen moving on university lawns while showcasing ir abilities such as backflipping and playing soccer. small robots have been built to act as a replica of a much larger robot codenamed cheetah 3.

eerie similarity between robots built by MIT and ones that were shown in Black Mirror prompted netizens to leave comments on social media platforms such as Twitter.

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Netizens reactions

One user posted a tweet wherein he compared situation to plot in Terminator, a popular Hollywood movie based on robots taking over world.

A user tweeted with ar terminator reference wherein he talked about how robotic world is waiting to take over.

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Ar user found incident to be very funny and stated that mini cheetahs were having a lot of fun by doing flips and playing football.

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'Just like Lego blocks'

person heing team at MIT, Benjamin Katz, stated that robots could be assembled just like lego blocks. He furr ded that reason for starting such a project was to make experimentations a very easy process and try unique things and ded that robots are sturdy and won't break easily. Katz also said that process to repair mini cheetahs was an inexpensive one.

Katz was hoping for a robotic race to take place wherein each person would be controlling a mini cheetah by trying out different algorithms in order to accelerate research.

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(With inputs from ncies)