However, the finished product was not a precise reproduction, but only an approximation that can move like a real cheetah in many ways, but isn't capable of, for example, climbing trees ...

“Our vision changed to wanting to use this in a real ... a robot drawing on similar evolutionary source material will probably do a better job navigating around. In the case of the Cheetah ...

Though the robo-cheetah runs at around 13mph (less than a quarter of the speed of a real cheetah), it’s designed to “outpace its animal counterparts in running efficiency,” MIT News reported ...