Multi-modal jumping and crawling in an autonomous, springtail-inspired microrobot
Shashwat Singh,Zeynep Temel,Ryan St. Pierre,Shashwat Singh,Zeynep Temel,Ryan St. Pierre
Springtails are tiny arthropods that crawl and jump. They jump by temporarily storing elastic energy in resilin elastic cuticular structures and releasing that energy to accelerate a tail, called a furca, propelling them in the air. This paper presents an autonomous, springtail-inspired microrobot that can crawl and jump. The microrobot has a mass of 980mg and stands 13mm tall, and has on-board se...
