Soft Robot Uses Explosions to Jump

Harvard researchers have created a soft robot that uses an "explosive actuator" to propel itself. Learn more: http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/ro...

This video is part of the paper "An Untethered Jumping Soft Robot," by Michael T. Tolley, Robert F. Shepherd, Michael Karpelson, Nicholas W. Bartlett, Kevin C. Galloway, Michael Wehner, Rui Nunes, George M. Whitesides, and Robert J. Wood, from Harvard University, presented at IROS 2014 in Chicago.