Scientists have designed a robot that they claim could one day jump 400 feet (120 meters) — high enough to clear the Statue of Liberty in a single bound. It could even leap as high as 650 feet (200 m) on the moon.
The high-jumping robot is designed for exploring difficult terrain that conventional robots would struggle to traverse, such as cave systems, forests and potentially other planets. It features unique prism-shaped legs with stretchable springs designed to maximize the transfer of elastic energy into kinetic energy during a jump.
