Tiny robot capable of jumping up to 32 meters

Researchers from the University of California, Santa Barbara (USA), have just introduced a unique type of robot, with a "unique" function, which is to jump really high off the ground.

This robot could one day be used on the moon.

It is known that although only 30 cm long and weighs about 30 grams, this robot is capable of jumping up to a height of 32.9 meters.

Santa Barbara, the co-author who developed the robot, believes it could one day be used on the moon.

According to the team, with low gravity on the lunar surface, this robot can reach an impressive distance of up to 500 meters with just one jump.

In the past, decades ago, engineers drew inspiration from animals to develop robots with a similar ability: jumping. The reason is that this ability of animals is often limited by their muscles. But with robots, all limits can be overcome.

The tiny robot is capable of jumping up to 32 meters in real-world conditions, and is even more impressive in low-gravity conditions.

For example, in 2016, researchers from the University of California, Berkeley were able to successfully design a robot named Salto, inspired by shrubs, that can jump 10 times its own height.

"The jump height of a built device can be far greater than that of any species," the researchers explain in the study published in the journal Nature.

It is known that jumping robots could be used to overcome obstacles that previously could only be navigated by flying robots to collect top-down images, according to the research team.