http://www.gizmag.com Researchers at the Laboratory of Intelligent Systems at EPFL have developed a jumping robot inspired by the grasshopper. The 5cm model uses a 0.6-gram pager motor and a cam to charge two torsion springs, which trigger a jump from the robot’s 1.3mm carbon rod feet. The 7-gram robot can jump 4.6 feet (1.4 m), more than 27 times its body size, and ten times the distance of any existing jumping robot.en gizmag.com http://www.gizmag.com/miniature-robot-leaps-27-times-its-body-size/9398/#comment-9061 http://www.gizmag.com/miniature-robot-leaps-27-times-its-body-size/9398/#comment-9061 Sun, 04 Oct 2009 10:21:07 -0500