Robots that can jump have been seen before, but a robot that jumps all the time is a little different. Salto-1P is a one-legged jumping robot at UC Berkeley, and back in 2017 it demonstrated the ...

Think of a robot leaping through a forest, navigating branches just like a squirrel. Researchers from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have developed a novel approach enabling robots to ...

(Image credit: Sebastian Lee). Bottom photo: A one-legged robot, called Salto, was modified to jump from one branch-like perch to another using principles derived from studies of leaping squirrels.

UC Berkeley researchers modified a one-legged robot, called Salto, to jump from one branch-like perch to another using principles derived from studies of leaping squirrels. Disclaimer: AAAS and ...

The MIT robot hops on just one leg in the laboratory and is only 5 cm tall. The hopping locomotion of a robot with only one leg has many advantages: it does not require much energy, thus extending ...

Using these strategies, Yim is working on a NASA-funded project to design a small, one-legged robot that could explore Enceladus, a moon of Saturn. Much of Salto's ability to hop, parkour ...