Conceptual design of the robot compared to a desert locust. Credit: Zaitsev, et al. ©2015 IOP Publishing Ltd
Researchers have built a locust-inspired robot that is just 5 inches long, 23 grams, but can jump 11 feet high and cover a horizontal distance of 4.5 ft. This jump height is more than twice the height of similar-sized jumping robots, and is 25X higher than its own length. The robot could have applications in search-and-rescue missions, reconnaissance, and environmental monitoring in rough terrain.
The team of researchers, Valentin Zaitsev, et al is from Tel Aviv University and Ort Braude College, Israel, which inspired the name of the robot: TAUB (Tel Aviv University and Braude College). “We demonstrate a design that is closer to nature,” Zaitsev...
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