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Mechanical Grasshopper Reaches Record Heights

A tiny robot resembling a grasshopper, measuring only 5 centimeters in height and weighting 7 grams, developed by the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology has recently broken the height record by jumping 27 times its own height. The previous record, held by a rather similar robot, was of only 17 times its own height. Its developers, Dario Floreano and Mirko Kovac, reckon that the tiny robot could use its special abilities to explore disaster areas or other planets, while moving around just b... Read »
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