A robot that could cover half a kilometre per jump on the moon may be the ideal lunar exploration vehicle
at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and his colleagues developed a robot just 30 centimetres tall that can leap to a height of 32.9 metres powered by a carbon fibre sprung skeleton.
Hawkes says that the maximum jumping height of animals is limited by the work their muscles can produce in a single stroke. But the new robot uses a tiny motor to tension its springs over many rotations. It jumps only when it has stored a large amount of energy.weighs just 30 grams and uses a system of gears to slowly compress the springs despite having only a small motor. This energy is then released rapidly to launch the robot into the sky.
“[The robot] could hop onto the side of an inaccessible cliff or leap into the bottom of a crater, take samples and return to a wheeled rover,” says Hawkes.at the University of Leeds, UK, says that the design achieves a height of robot jumping that has never been managed before. “This technology has a great potential to be integrated into robots designed to rescue people after disasters like earthquakes or tsunamis,” he says.
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