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 ...

Researchers designed a soft, legless robot that can hop and navigate obstacle courses. By Sabrina Imbler If a pancake could dream, it might long for legs so it could jump off your breakfast plate in ...

Get ready to be amazed by the world's highest jumping robot, an engineering marvel that defies gravity! In this exciting ...

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 ...

If you say “jump” I say “how high?” – and a new robot from UC Santa Barbara says “over 100 ft (30 m).” The research team says that’s higher than anything else has ever jumped, be it robot or animal, ...

A jumping robot that resembles a miniature “Star Wars” Imperial walker could one day aid in scouting and search-and-rescue operations, researchers said. Researchers at the University of California, ...

U.S. olympian Mike Powell made history in 1991 at the summer games in Los Angeles when he leaped over 29-feet in the long jump. Already towering at 6 feet 2 inches, Powell’s jump was equivalent to 4.7 ...

A robot with bird-like legs that can walk, hop, leap and jump for take-off into flight has been designed in Switzerland in an engineering breakthrough that could enable aircraft to operate in ...

One of those odd facts that children learn at school -- how fleas can jump many times their own height -- has now materialized in the form of a new robotic design. We've seen robots designed by ...

Earlier this year, we heard about some tiny robots that used a bio-inspired mechanism to jump high into the air. The makers of those devices have now tweaked the design, creating bots that jump very ...