Robots Are Now Learning How to Jump Hundreds of Feet in the Air

Researchers at the University of California, Santa Barbara have built a robot that can vault up to a record-breaking 100 feet in the air.

. The robot, which looks like a bunch of bicycle wheels mashed together, uses some unique engineering to overcome the mechanical limitations holding us back from jumping very high. Its inventors suggest the new bot may help us with exploring dangerous environments here on Earth and potentially other planets out in the void of space.

But with some good engineering, robots can soar to heights we humans can only dream of. The robot created by the UCSB team stands only at about 30 centimeters tall, just shy of a bowling pin, and weighs about as much as an average adult mouse at 30 grams. Despite its diminutive size, it can jump more than 100 times its own height thanks to springs and rubber bands that store energy, and a rotary motor that multiplies the amount of force and energy produced for a single jump.

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