Combustion powers bug-sized robots to leap, lift and race

ITHACA, New York, Sept. 18 -- Cornell University issued the following news:

Call it the big bang for bug-sized robots.

Cornell researchers combined soft microactuators with high-energy-density chemical fuel to create an insect-scale quadrupedal robot that is powered by combustion and can outrace, outlift, outflex and outleap its electric-driven competitors.

This combustion-powered quadrupedal robot is capable of multi-gait movements and can leap 60 centimet . . .

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