A springtail-like jumping robot Diminutive device can leap 23 times its body length Peer-Reviewed Publication Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences ...

As quirky as they sound, jumping robots are more than just a gimmick. They’re useful in disaster rescue, planetary exploration, and surveillance. Now, researchers might have designed the optimal ...

Citation: Kumar S, Tiwari I, Ortega-Jimenez V, Dillman A, He D, Hu Y, and Bhamla S, Reversible kink instability drives ultrafast jumping in nematodes and soft robots, Science Robotics 2025. 10. ...

An egg-cracking beam relies on a hyperelastic torque reversal mechanism similar to that used by mantis shrimp and jumping fleas. Credit: Seoul National University. We usually think of robots as ...

By growing the mushroom’s mycelium, or rootlike threads, into the robot’s hardware, a team led by Cornell University researchers has engineered two types of robots that sense and respond to ...