This Adorable Robot Can Do Parkour Way Better Than You
Meet Salto, a UC Berkeley-designed robot that, like a parkour athlete, can string together consecutive vertical jumps. Its developers hope to use the robot in search-and-rescue missions, where it can dart around quickly across complex landscapes. Salto (which stands for “saltatorial locomotion on terrain obstacle”) is the brainchild of UC Berkeley roboticist Duncan Haldane, who…
