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Robotics

New, improved latch control helps build robots that leap like grasshoppers

Ashwini Sakharkar

The latch can be used to control jump performance across a wide range of terrains.

Cockroach-inspired robot
Robotics

DASH: Cockroach-inspired robot that uses the momentum of a head-on crash

Amit Malewar

Skittering cockroaches knock their heads a ton as well. However, they figure out how to grasp it, utilizing the collision energy to drive themselves...

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