Grasshopper-Inspired Jumping Microrobot Can Make Staggering Leaps
Wednesday, May 21, 2008 - 12:14
in Mathematics & Economics
Researchers from the Laboratory of Intelligent Systems at EPFL are unveiling a novel, grasshopper-inspired jumping robot at the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation. The robot weighs a minuscule 7 grams, and can jump 1.4 meters, or more than 27 times its body size -- ten times farther for its size and weight than any existing jumping robot.
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