Click beetle-inspired jumping robot developed at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

This video shows high-speed camera video frames of the actuator snap-through and the ground interaction process for the SyP and SyP+, the highest jumping designs of the variations of the click beetle-inspired robots that the team fabricated. For more information, visit news.illinois.edu/view/6367/4.... Video courtesy Sameh Tawfick and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.