Georgia Tech physicist Daniel Goldman (left) and graduate student Jeffrey Aguilar examine a simple robot built to study the dynamics of jumping. They may have found the secret to more efficient ...

Locomotion makes things move, and certain forms of locomotion make them move better than others. Those more effective types of locomotion change depending on the environment, which is even more true ...

An orange wheel rolls across concrete and suddenly jumps, as if it decided to ...

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 ...

Recent advancements in robotics have increasingly drawn on biological principles to develop machines capable of dynamic, agile motion. One area of significant progress is the design of jumping robots ...

Springtails, small bugs often found crawling through leaf litter and garden soil, are expert jumpers. Inspired by these hopping hexapods, roboticists in the Harvard John A. Paulson School of ...

A team of engineers at the University of Manchester has developed a concept for a robot that can jump up to 120 m high. The researchers used a combination of mathematics, computer simulation and ...

The movements of a parasitic worm have inspired Georgia Tech engineers to create a five-inch soft robot that can jump 10 feet into the air without legs. Nematodes can jump up to 20 times their body ...