Hopper Bot Leaps 25-foot Fences in a Single Bound
Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009
This video is from TechRepublic. It shows a robot developed by Boston Dynamics and Sandia National Laboratories for the Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). It’s easy to imagine the military uses for this thing. The landing looks a bit tough for a manned ride-along.
Here is a link to Sandia’s article on the robotic jumping jackaroo.
