We’ve already seen robots that can swim like fish, stick to walls like geckos, and grab objects like elephants. Now, ...
As our skies increasingly crowd with buzzing, hovering, flitting drones, spare a thought for the humble hopping robot. Hopping, a popular form of locomotion in the insect and amphibian worlds, is ...
Engineers have created DirectHop, a roughly 1-gram robot that can perform multiple hops in sequence and jump high enough to clear a standard stair step. As our skies increasingly crowd with buzzing, ...
DirectHop, a 1-gram hopping robot developed at the University of Washington, leaps off of a tabletop. Unlike more common spring-loaded hopping bots ...