This is the way the world ends.
But seriously: The latest achievement of MIT's robotic cheetah -- a quick, resilient mechanical creature that we've covered on the blog before -- is kind of terrifying. Cool, but terrifying. As you can see in the above clip, the robot can now leap over hurdles mid-run without the help of a human, which makes it the first four-legged robot to do so.
Oh cool, now this robotic cheetah can make running leaps - The Washington Post