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Record-Breaking Robot Highlights How Animals Excel at Jumping

The Quanta Podcast

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Biomechanical Design Quirks Make Jumping More Powerful

The success of the robot highlights the physical limitations that biological jumpers face in the wild. But by making biomechanical tweaks tailored to animals jumping needs, evolution has come up with its own ingenious workarounds. The power of a jump is equivalent to how much energy is available to the jumping mechanism per unit of time during push off.

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