it is a cheetah. and it is off for a prowl.g robots like this trotting out of labs all around the world. now the important skill here is not that they can walk a particular route autonomously — they are usually controlled manually using games controllers. no, the amazing skill here is that they can walk and balance as competently as we can, even on the most unforgiving of terrain. ok, that is impressive. that slips, loses its balance, and regains it. that is the important thing. whoa! good shot! how hard is this? very, very hard. we move our body very easily, but we have to make sure that we know that we have three times more neurons for muscle movement than your actual forebrain. we have 700 muscles. we are trying to mimic this with using only 12 motor. still pretty ha rd. how close are we to robots like this being of practical use? what do we still need to get right? i think we're pretty close in terms of mobility, like walking around, climbing upstairs, turning. the hardest challenge is still using arms. i sent this to power

here's a first look at the character she plays, named the cheetah.comics, she is an archaeologist that can transform into a human/cheetah hybrid. >> very, very excited. >> still no announcement on whether linda carter will join the cast. a scheduling conflict kept her from the first film. >> i'm not saying, even if i knew i couldn't tell you. >> you could. >> no, i couldn't. >> nobody knows how many more "wonder woman" movies are coming, but gal tells us that when the time comes her daughter alma, now 6, is ready to step in. >> she's very, very proud. she's walking in school and everyone knows she's my daughter and she's already asked me if she can take over when i'm older. >> legacy that's what happens when your mom is wonder woman. >> so sweet. >> amazing. >> wonder woman 1984 be out november 1st 2019. >>> still ahead here -- >> is there such a thing of too much shirtless chris hemsworth. >> i think it was really big mistake to have him take his shirt off. >>> and fourth of july wedding anniversaries. >> he's my soulmate. >> we're celebrating with

they call it cheetah 3. it's effectively blind but the robot can still run, it can climb up steps.can jump. and has no vision. it knows where to go, i guess. >> it's got different sensors. >> you can't knock it over. it has some balance sensors. it recovers easily when it's pushed to the side. m.i.t. says cheetah 3 could be useful in disaster situations or in complete darkness when humans may not be able to enter an area safely. i think they're coming to get us. the dynamics have scarier robots. you have the more optimistic view. >> it's so cute. coming so save me. >> it's coming to save her. >> coming to get us. >> maybe it can bat for the giants. >> that's what they need. you say they have some blind spots? they have blind spots right over the plate. it was supposed to be about johnny's home coming, ahoy! gotcha! ah! nooooo... noooooo... nooooo... quick, the quicker picker upper! bounty picks up messes quicker and is 2x more absorbent than the leading ordinary brand. ahoy! (laughing) bounty, the quicker picker upper. >> announcer: abc sports brought to you by river rock casino. >

louie, abc 7 >>> at quarter to 5:00 nirng engineerings at m.it show off the newest robot called the cheetah three and it's blind but can maneuver well around obstacles jumping on tables, walk up the stairs. >> what? >> oh my, when you push it over it recov rll ft.ased. it used sensors to feel its way around the world. and m.i.t. says it could be useful in disaster situations and complete darkness when humans may not be able to enter safely. >> amazing. wow buts are scarey in. >> yeah. >> i have seen this episode of black mirror a couple of times. >> it doesn't end well. >> not for us. >> for the robot. >> for the cheetah it's great. >> we have seen the ending yet we keep going down the road. >> i do. >> guys. >> wow we could have fun of those fan you this weekend. >> that would be really good use of money. >> yeah! >> a look at what's going on. it's hot in most neighborhoods here is look at the exploratorium camera. you don't see the marine layer this morning. so it's going to be parly sunny and maybe more humid today. even warmer this weekend in the heat will moderate thanks for the sea br

working with different pianists and different styles of pianist with the left over with me it's a cool cheetah so at the very beginning there was very little to say it was just a feeling that the conductor and orchestra were listening to each other and finding the styles together. yes think still less less less less just too much screams for some small adjustments small adjustments ok what you want to just. bite them all right if. you want us to stop the walk. well. picture perfect used the score supreme white tiger by a perfect one is used in these i like to have a can of a. yes since fifty feet of ice bar if a man was i'm tired because she stood in the us and the ties my smile to the technician designed to market and this one was he was mocked as the us was one. when we think of musical shopping varies a bit if you're being on an extreme side of a watch this is never the less waste such of the right psychological oh alter its course very much beyond a common image of him as a composer of it's i want you to explore. in this miserable means a lot of close to his scheme feel. you know there's s

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new video showing seven cheetah cubs born this month at the n. smithson they appear to be healthy at two months old. they're the first babies for parents aaron and rico. they're part of the s smithsonia conservation effort and they're likely going to be moved to zoos and other conservation places. >> a big congratulations to wizards wife bradley beal. and his wife welcomed "deuce."an mom, dadbaby are doing well. a big crowd for big star at the made in d.c. shop in dupont sishlg. derek ward shows us this jam session with a visiting a-lister. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> reporr: the beats around dupont circle has become something of a voirch oso on the paint can. >>y dad started it. >> then he 23e8 on hard times. >> that was my survival. 0. >> pathways to housing. but he knew something was up this time. indeed, the popup concert would be different because of ch kevin n and the bacon brother band. >> decided to just swing by around maybe you'd let us si in. >> reporter: of course the jam session was on. ♪ ♪ >> phways to housing and since they're in town for local gigs,

. >> cheetah is going to cheetah. >> so, this is that horrible story of the unused life jackets hangingat. >> the boat hoisted from the bottom of that lake today. what wutre learning a what may have gone wrong here. >> and then at 5:00, we have a new interim school superintendent who has been ntyed for prince george's c and why she got the nod and what she plans to do differently than she plans to do differently than the man she is replacing. i had life-treatening bleeding in my brain. but thanks to the virtual reality technology at gw hospital, my surgeons were ato look inside my brain and plan for a successful surgery. it's remarkable that i woke up and ran five miles this morning. i would tell gw hospital thank yo for life's defining moments the george washington univeristy hospital defining medicine. >>> scott macfarlane at the live desk. breaking news from the news 4 i-team. federal officials andrs of congress will question the u.s. department of homeland security tomorrow about election security in mityland. ill be the house oversight committee. it will be tomorrow morning. it com

they say she's okay, they raise the door and she makes like a cheetah.ven though she's a leopard. >> what's really nice, to where her mother was found. >> the hard part is what happened behind him. >> oh! >> you hear the tires screech. you hear a bump. but what you'll see next is bizarre. >> oh! >> oh! he took it with him. >> plastic bumper just getting wedged in between the tire and frame of the bike. here comes the driver to get a piece of his mind. or a piece of his car. >> will you put it in park for me? >> oh, be nice. he's probably a little bit nervous. >> this is way bad, right? >> yeah, it doesn't take it much further than that. but the writer is right, it could have been way, way worse. >> this guy pulling on to an entranceway on a highway, sees the traffic jam, sees it, and bails out and takes this frontage road instead. at the end of this frontage road, there's a stop sign. he sees it -- oh! but the car behind doesn't notice it and just barely rider. [ bleep ]. >> listen to what the driver says here? >> how about -- >> stop sign? >> oh, that's

know the reindeer how does a cheetah and indigenous people they live in the tundra with their hands. normally the animals are sold for their meat so if not today a different face awaits them. but what do we do next. go to the police to come first the herd has to be surrounded so the animals can't escape . and get his him off by and transport only animals with which they populate their reserves by themselves reindeer are the easiest animals to come by they can be collected by boat from the tundra only a few hours away at three hundred dollars a head several say the cheapest but bison and musk ox which nikita and sergey need most urgently cost ten thousand dollars per animal and they're not found here in the region. you won't get we only have a few young adults wolves attack them in the spring of seventy five reindeer were trampled down in the paddock and then the bears came and they're a plague. well that's good we also had bears in the reserves until a few days ago just because you didn't just believe we killed to. see what they're going to. do you know we're going. to. another twelv

the team behind the self—balancing cheetah robot want to fit it with human—controlled arms because aig objects, not yet anyway. and a completely different piece of research is also eschewing ai altogether. this is an idea that hopes to block e—mails containing bullying, harassment and hate. what is interesting is that here we are in the artificial intelligence department but you are basically saying ai is not cut out for this and we need to go back to humans. from talking to people who deal with harassment we found harassment is really contextual. it's personalised, often to the person getting harassed, because often the person harassing them is sometimes using something that they know about that person to harass them. and so we think that something like ai isn't going to be able to cover all the ways people are getting harassed, and in fact people might be trying to get around the things that a model might be learning. they will have a very innocuous title for the email, and maybe their harassment will be hidden near the bottom and you have to go and read it. it is an idea called squ

seven cheetah gcubs born at the smithsonian. ce are part of the smithsonian's cration efforts.absolutelyadorable. they look like little beanie babies. >> if that's as close as we get, that's worth it because they're cute to see. >> we were talking about bush gardens a moment ago. hershey park, completely under i was looking through our social media feed. the park was closed yesterday. >> is that where dutch wonder loo wonderland. >> the water was really high. >> it's coming down in spirits. and all of a sudden, boom >> and heavy downpours. you can seen this the western side of theltway. we're going to have your traffic. ce you get into your car, you're getting ready for this moing, it's 5:52, gete a lit pep in your step, you might want to leaveec earlyse we have the heavy rain. it comes back to thefestern side i-95. running parallel to that. that's going to head intoas mana and we have rain through southern maryland. we got flooding at heavy recall this. look at this moisture feed, all the way back down throuer ea florida. what to expect for the evening commute, this morning, h

they call it cheetah 3. it's effectively blind but the robot can still run, it can climb up steps.can jump. and has no vision. it knows where to go, i guess. >> it's got different sensors. >> you can't knock it over. it has some balance sensors. it recovers easily when it'sm.t useful in disaster situations or in complete darkness when humans may not be able to enter an area safely. i think they're coming to get us. the dynamics have scarier robots. you have the more optimistic view. >> it's so cute. coming so save me. >> it's coming to save her. >> coming to get us. >> maybe it can bat for the giants. >> that's what they need. you say they have some blind spots? they have blind spots right over the plate. it was supposed to be about johnny's home coming, your digestive system has billions of bacteria but life can throw them off balance. re-align yourself with align probiotic. and try new align gummies with prebiotics and probiotics to help support digestive health. i never thought i'd say this... ...but i found bladder leak underwear... ...that's actually pretty. always discreet bo

and in click at 12:30pm, we'll meet a group of scientists who've built a robotic cheetah. good afternooncident has been declared after two moorland fires, described as rapidly developing and aggressive, merged. authorities say fires on winter hill and scout road near bolton have combined as a result of increasing wind speed. 150 firefighters are at the scene of the blaze that's covering five square miles. james waterhouse reports. when a tinder dry landscape combines with strong winds. pockets of north—west england continue to be blanketed in smoke and ash. they are fires that just refuse to be beaten. the blaze at winter hill started on thursday near a major tv transmitter. three days on, more than 100 firefighters are still tackling it. it continues to remain a major incident and we are still actively firefighting across a number of areas. wind conditions have changed throughout, this is the third day now where we have been firefighting on winter hill amid these extremely testing conditions for firefighters. crews try to stop the burning embers by hand, and by helicopter. trenches have

and in click at 3.30, we'll meet a group of scientists who've built a robotic cheetah.ood afternoon. welcome to bbc news. more than 100 fire fighters are working in what's being described as "extremely testing conditions" at the scene of a huge moorland fire in lancashire. yesterday strong winds led to two fires merging — the result now covers several square miles. officials say it could take at least a week to put out the flames. 0ur correspondent sarah walton has this report. the fires are still burning. pockets of the north west of england are now covered by smoke and ash as the landscape is tinder—dry with strong winds fanning the flames. this is a blaze thatjust refuses to be beaten. the fires at winter hill started on thursday near a major tv transmitter that serves nearly 7 million viewers. three days on, more than 100 firefighters are still tackling it. this fire is over quite an extensive area, on two faces of winter hill. so we've got two areas in the region of about four square kilometres each so significant fire fronts. so there's aggressive fire fighting go

the cheetah three robot is designed to do power plant inspections or searching disaster sites the robotan move over uneven ground and handle stairs without an issue all in complete darkne darkness it doesn't need to see >> if it can help save lives, even if it's creepy, it's cool. >>> already worried about what to watch when the world cup ends facebook is working on it. the social network is in discussions with cristiano ronaldo for an original reality show on facebook watch ronaldo is the most popular athlete on facebook with 120 million followers. if the deal goes through, ronaldo could get around $10 million for the 13 episode show. >> not bad work if you can get it >>> speaking of soccer stars, you may have heard that brazilian superstar neymar has spent almost 14 minutes of the world cup rolling on the ground. so kfc put out this ad poking fun at neymar. it shows a player flopping dramatically and rolling through the city cameramen chasing after him until finally he reaches a kfc restaurant, once there, he pops up happily ready to give his order to a smiling cashier >> at least the

it is a cheetah. and it is off for a prowl. autonomously — they are usually controlled manually using games controllers — no, the amazing skill here is that they can walk and balance as competently as we can, even on the most unforgiving of terrain. ok, that is impressive. ok, that slips, loses its balance, and regains it. that is the important thing. whoa! good shot! how hard is this to do? very, very hard. people might not notice because we move our body very easily, but we have to make sure that we know that we have actually three, four times for more neurons for muscle movement than your actual forebrain. we have 700 muscles. we are trying to mimic that with using only twelve motor. still pretty darn hard. how close are we to robots like this being of practical use? what do we still need to get right? i think we're pretty close in terms of mobility, like walking around, climbing upstairs, turning. the hardest challences is still using arms. i sent this to power plants with radiation activity is going on and we don't know if

hostile of course we're talking forty celsius in shoot is much of north africa looking very hot dry cheetahs cools off a touch by friday with the top temperature than the thirty four degrees. welcome back a recap of the top stories here on al-jazeera the syrian government and its ally russia are intensifying their bombing campaign in southern province according to opposition reports they say the number of air strikes increased over talks with rebels ended without an agreement. british police say two people critically ill in southern england have been exposed to the nerve agent is the same substance used to poison the russian double agent. and his daughter and saul's brain march latest incident happened in the neighboring village of amesbury. and rescuers in northern thailand are in a race against time to pump water from a flooded cave where youth football team has been trapped now for twelve days heavy rains forecast for the weekend could mean the twelve boys in the coach will have to dive into the water using scuba gear to make their way out. zimbabwe's military commanders are hoping to con

hostel of course we're talking forty celsius in shoot this much of north africa looking very hot try cheetahs cools off a touch by friday with the top temperatures then the thirty four degrees. the afghan national army. guardians of a country ravaged by decades of war and occupation abandoned by its liberate his. young men who know that each day could be the last it to continue to fight for a future free from chaos. a own battle a witness documentary on al-jazeera. welcome back a reminder of the top stories say on al jazeera there are reports that russia has resumed ass trying since southern syria to talk talks broke down between syrian rebels and russian offices hundreds of thousands of civilians have been forced from their homes by the russian syrian offensive around. their own revolutionary guard say they're ready to carry out president hassen ruhani these threats to disrupt oil exports from the gulf war he said the measures could be taken if u.s. sanctions prevent iran from selling oil on global markets a new video has been released showing a tiny use football team in good health despite

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