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The MIT robot hops on just one leg in the laboratory and is only 5 cm tall. The hopping locomotion of a robot with only one leg has many advantages: it does not require much energy, thus extending ...

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Our hope is that one day this robot could go out of the lab and be useful in real-world scenarios," says Yi-Hsuan (Nemo) Hsiao, an MIT graduate student and co-lead author of a paper on the hopping ...