Discover the amazing Salto robot, inspired by grasshoppers and designed for exceptional jumping ability. In this video, we ...

This cute, one-legged hopping robot out of UC Berkeley's Biomimetics lab has been capable of doing sweet parkour-style double-jumps off walls since 2016. By 2018, it was hopping continuously to ...

Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, first unveiled Salto the jumping robot in 2016. Now, they've equipped the robot with a slew of new skills, giving it the ability to bounce in ...

Engineers developing space exploration robots drew inspiration from the common squirrel for their latest cutting-edge bot design, which they say could also help in search and rescue missions during ...

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Sticking the perfect landing can take years of practice for a human gymnast, and it seems the same is true for little monopedal jumping robots. Salto-1P, an old acquaintance here on Hackaday, always ...

In a test of 60 jumps, the robot made a perfectly controlled landing 52 times, sat back on its "heel" five times, and fell over just three. Controlling the landing has hugely boosted Salto's jumping ...

Springtails, small bugs often found crawling through leaf litter and garden soil, are expert jumpers. Inspired by these hopping hexapods, roboticists have made a walking, jumping robot that pushes the ...

Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, first unveiled Salto the jumping robot in 2016. Now, they've equipped the robot with a slew of new skills, giving it the ability to bounce in ...