Amazing Robot Jumps Like Grasshopper

Looking like a gear-head grasshopper, a new robot can jump distances more than 27 times its body length. The contraption, about the size of a locust and weighing only about a quarter of an ounce (7 grams), could aid in search and rescue operations and explore rough terrain.

Invented by researchers at the Laboratory of Intelligent Systems at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)… » Full Story on LiveScience