Reefgen’s Grasshopper robot is ready for deploying into Washington’s Puget Sound where it’s helping with an eelgrass restoration effort.

The robot emerged, its cheery yellow buoy and tether trailing behind it. Grasshopper, which is about the size of two milk crates, motored over to a bare, sandy patch in the shallow bay.

Robot That Jumps Like A Grasshopper And Rolls Like A Ball Created For Space Exploration. ScienceDaily. Retrieved June 4, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2008 / 12 / 081204074810.htm.

Taking their cue from leaping insects like the grasshopper and flea, French roboticists have built a tiny robot with spring-powered legs, capable of jumping 27 times its own size.

Video: This robot weighs just 7 grams and can leap a record-breaking 27 times its own height (Footage: EPFL) Jumping allows small robots to get over obstacles legs and wheels can't deal with ...

London: The first robot that can jump like a grasshopper and roll like a ball could play a key role in space exploration. The 'Jollbot', created by Rhodri Armour, PhD student from University of Bath, ...

The robot’s body is made of reinforced plastic. It’s 129cm long, stands 52.2cm tall and weighs 32.4kg. I am sorry to say there’s no video available at this point (I searched everywhere).

A jumping robot inspired by a grasshopper can leap 27 times its body length, according to scientists. Swarms of the locust-like drones could one day be used to explore remote areas of the Earth or ...

It wasn’t enough to have a jumping grasshopper robot, it must fly!And the guys at EPFL’s Laboratory of Intelligent Systems are on it by giving grasshopper-bot wings and figuring out how to ...

If it can't go around an obstacle, it goes over. To jump, the cage compresses and springs open — a mechanism inspired by the joints of a grasshopper's legs.

While it doesn't exactly boast all that many robot-like characteristics, this grasshopper-inspired bot from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology is apparently enough of one to lay claim to ...