Varying the relative speed and direction of each of the mechanisms lets the robot move in any direction, similar to his ball-wheeled robot. Each strider mechanism uses a single motor and looks ...

Walking robots have exploded in popularity ever since Spot hit the scene. We’ve seen everything from complex builds to super-simple single-servo designs.

Springtails, small bugs often found crawling through leaf litter and garden soil, are expert jumpers. Inspired by these hopping hexapods, roboticists have made a walking, jumping robot that pushes the ...

Harvard researchers have developed a small, agile robot capable of walking and jumping, inspired by hopping hexapods like ...

Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have made a walking ... use of a similar mechanism, along with insights from springtail jumps, for small jumping robots,” Wood said.

Springtails, small bugs often found crawling through leaf litter and garden soil, are expert jumpers. Inspired by these hopping hexapods ...