A small robot weighing about thirty grams and 30 centimeters in height is capable of jumping more than 100 times its size (nearly 33 meters), demonstrates an article by researchers from the University of California, Santa Barbara, published in
Nature
, April 27.
This is a new record for man-made equipment that compares to the performance of the best jumping animals.
Boston Dynamics, for example, showed in 2018 a humanoid robot capable of doing a backflip and landing on its feet!
A feat that had amazed robotics experts… In 2012, the same company had presented an autonomous wheel mechanism, propelled with a CO2 piston, jumping 10 meters high.
A bio-inspired system
But the little robot featured in
Nature
is more efficient.
It compares to the performance of
"the insect froghopper (leafhopper), which can jump 70 centimeters, or up to 115 times its size,"
says Sarah Bergbreiter, professor of mechanical engineering at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh...
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