- Who
- Salto-1P
- What
- 1.83 metre(s) per second
- Where
- Canada (Vancouver)
- When
The most vertically agile robot is called Salto-1P (from "saltatorial locomotion on terrain obstacles"), with a vertical jumping agility – the height it can reach with a single jump in Earth gravity, multiplied by the frequency at which that jump can be made – of 1.83 metres per second. This is about 81% of the jumping agility of a galago (Galago senegalensis), a nocturnal primate with the greatest jumping agility. The battery-powered robot weighs 98.1 g (3.46 oz) and measures 15 cm (5.91 in) tall when fully extended. It can jump to a height of roughly 2 m (6 ft 6 in). Salto-1P was created by researchers of the University of California in Berkeley, USA and presented at the 2017 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2017) in Vancouver, Canada, on 24-28 September 2017.
Salto-1P broke the record previously held by Salto, which had been developed by the same research team and presented in 2016. Salto had a vertical jumping ability of 1.75 metres per second.
