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Record-breaking robot capable of jumping 120 metres
Engineers at The University of Manchester have unlocked the secrets to designing a robot capable of jumping 200 metres – higher than any other jumping robot designed to date.Using a combination of mathematics, computer simulations, and laboratory experiments, the researchers have discovered how to design a robot with the optimum size, shape an...
The advancement, published in the journal Mechanism and Machine Theory, will revolutionise applications ranging from planetary exploration to disaster rescue to surveillance of hazardous or inaccessible spaces. Co-author Dr John Lo, Research Associate in Space Robotics at The University of Manchester, said: “Robots are traditionally designed to move by rolling on wheels or using legs to walk, but jumping provides an effective way of travelling around locations where the terrain is very uneven, or where there are a lot of obstacles, such as inside caves, through forests, over boulders, or even the surface of other planets in space. Lighter legs, in the shape of a prism and using springs that only stretch are all properties that we have shown to improve the performance and most importantly, the energy efficiency of the jumping robot.”
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