jumping robot

Met RHex - and curvy legs , jumping robot
By Doug Gross , CNN
If you watch the video just one day of the robot which rushes through the rugged areas such as lizard - water walking , no back Gymnastics volatility and long climb things , make it this one.
If you watch the two? Send us the other one.
RHex is the creation of researchers at the University of Pennsylvania, which we hope will be one climb rubble Day in cases of emergency rescue or zooming across the scorching sands of the desert with her ​​six Durrani and springy legs .
"What we want is a robot that can go anywhere , even on terrain that may be broken and uneven ," said graduate student Aaron Johnson , one of those researchers. " This is the latest jumps to greatly expand the scope of what this device is capable , as it can now jump on or through the obstacles that are bigger than it is. "
RHex ( short for "Hexapod Robot" and pronounced " Rex " ) is actually more than a decade old , the brainchild of project multiuniversity. But the researchers Pennsylvania recently established a new version - called X - RHex to the White - which, as the name suggests , is lighter and more flexible than previous versions.
The result: a rectangle animation that has , in fact, been teach parkour Android .
In a video released late last month , charges RHex across campus of Pennsylvania ( with sound suitably epic ) before showing off an impressive vertical leap , and do many of the return of volatility and pay the same steps.
Moments, the most impressive , though, may be jumping from one picnic table to another on the extent of the gap is greater than the length of their own and even flipping on a tall stone block , grab its front with curved legs and pulling himself upward.
The robots , the legs are more effective than the wheel when it comes to rough terrain . But it can be complicated to teach legs like a human walking robots how to respond to the circumstances can not predict. Is simple and suitable legs voice and RHex one of the better to get around obstacles in innovative ways , says the Pennsylvania team