Researchers have designed a system that enables robots to record the highest-ever jumps.
A team at the University of Manchester has developed a design that allows robots to clear obstacles many times their size. They utilized a combination of computer simulations, laboratory experiments, and mathematical principles.
The system helped the team optimize the robot’s size, shape, and arrangement of parts and achieve the desired results.
According to researchers, the current highest-jumping robot can reach up to 33 meters, equivalent to 110 times its own size. The new robot can jump over 120 meters in the air or 200 meters on the moon—more than twice the height of Big Ben’s tower.
The details of the team’s research were published in the journal Mechanism and Machine Theory.
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