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 today in Pasadena, California. The robot weighs a miniscule 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. These jumpers could be fitted out with tiny sensors to explore rough, inaccessible terrain. (source: actualites.epfl.ch)
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