Amazing Salto-1P is jumping longer, faster and higher than ever

Bioinspired robot, Salto-1P, is featured in an IEEE Spectrum article titled “Salto-1P Is the Most Amazing Jumping Robot We’ve Ever Seen.”  Born in Prof. Ronald Fearing’s Biomimetic Millisystems Lab, Salto-1P is the most recent incarnation of the Saltatorial Locomotion on Terrain Obstacles (Salto) robot which was pronounced the most vertically agile robot ever created last December.  Salto-1P uses a small motor and a system of linkages and gears to jump.  It needs to do most of its control in the air because it spends so little time in contact with the ground, so it uses a rotating inertial tail and two little thrusters to stabilize and reorient itself in between jumps.

See Salto-1P in action as it bounces around and self-destructs.