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Researchers at the University of Manchester have designed a robot that could one day jump 400 feet ( 120 meters ) Researchers say it could leap as high as 650 feet ( 200 m) on the moon.
It features unique prism-shaped legs with stretchable springs designed to maximize the transfer of elastic energy into kinetic energy during a jump.
The robot is designed for exploring terrain that conventional robots would struggle to traverse.
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