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, ...

An insect-scale robot that jumps using only light has completed 188 continuous leaps without a single electronic component. The soft machine bends, snaps and resets itself automatically, powered ...

A mechanical jumper developed by UC Santa Barbara engineering professor Elliot Hawkes and collaborators is capable of achieving the tallest height — roughly 100 feet (30 meters) — of any jumper to ...

The new record-breaking jumping robot can jump up to 32.9 meters (roughly 107 feet) into the air. A team of researchers created the robot while investigating the difference between biological and ...

The average human is unable to jump more than two or three feet (via The Exercisers). In the animal kingdom, we are vastly outnumbered by creatures with superb jumping abilities — and the robotics ...

Image of the device jumping, with lines added over the position of the jumper every approximately 656 feet per second. Human is 6 feet tall. (Hawkes et al/Science) (CN) — Once, robots could only jump ...

A mechanical jumper just set a new record for any known jumper, engineered or biological. The jumping robot is able to leap an astounding 100 feet (30 meters) into the air. The Eliot Hawkes Lab's ...

Kangaroos, tree frogs, grasshoppers, and robots—what do these four things have in common? While the first three’s similarities may be obvious to some, the fourth addition may scramble the limits of ...