Robots that utilize springs and latches à la fleas can also travel impressive distances, but they have no easy way to calibrate jump distance—discharging a spring is an "all or nothing" action, said ...

Typical jumping behavior of a spherical shell obtained from simulation: it jumps from the inverted configuration back to its original shape. Inspired by a simple children's toy, a jumping popper toy, ...

A new generation of robots is beginning to move through the world with a level of independence once limited to animals. Researchers at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, known as ...

Newswise — 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 ...