Prof. Josie Hughes. The GOAT has a fairly simple body. Viewed from above in its default shape, the robot sports a flat ring-like frame made up of two looped, intersecting, flexible fiberglass rods.

It's ordinarily folded up beneath the body and held under tension ... propelling the robot upward within just 14 milliseconds. A frame from an ultra-slow-motion video, showing how the robot's ...