Robotics. Robot components. Aggressive Maneuvers for Autonomous Quadrotor Flight. Cylinder, Actuator, Drive, Valve, Sensor and Compressed Air Supply. Festo - Bionic Learning Network 2009. Festo SmartInversion. Amazing Robot Can Jump 30 Feet High. Boston Dynamics yesterday posted a video to their YouTube page showing off their “Sand Flea Jumping Robot.
The robot appears to be a normal RC car except for one thing: it can pop itself 30 feet into the air to scale obstacles in its path. The video, as seen below, shows the robot leap to the roof of a small building in a single bound. The robot has an onboard stabilization system that helps control landings and stabilize the view from its onboard video uplink. Funding for the development of the ‘Sand Flea’ was provided by DARPA, JIEDDO, and the U.S. Mighty morphing hexapod bot is back, now rolls with the punches.