University of Washington builds a 1-gram robot that sets the height of each hop

University of Washington engineers have developed DirectHop, a 1 g palm-sized robot that uses a small motor, pulley and strings to jump, with the motor current setting how far and high each hop goes. A curved cage helps it flip back upright, which worked in about 90% of lab trials. It still needs wired power and has no sensors.

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