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Verge reporter Chaim Gartenberg writes that MIT researchers have developed a new mini cheetah robot that can perform backflips. Gartenberg notes that the robot is the first four-legged robot that can do a backflip, adding that it weighs “around 20 pounds, and can trot along at up to 2.45 meters per second (around 5.5 miles per hour).”