Pogo-Bot Goes All Terrain With Compliant Foot
Pogo-Bot Goes All Terrain With Compliant Foot No comments by: Tyler August September 30, 2026 Title: Copy Short Link: Copy What do you get when you combine a pogo stick, a quadcopter, and engineering students from the University of Toronto? This thing, apparently– a “monopedal hopping robot” that uses a spikey, pivoting foot pad tensioned by what look like elastic bands to keep it upright on all terrain from soft sand to hard ice. The thrust from the four propellers is what gives the energy to get the robot moving, but its pogo-like hopping is entirely down to the spring-loaded single legged “landing gear”.
- ▪Pogo-Bot Goes All Terrain With Compliant Foot No comments by: Tyler August September 30, 2026 Title: Copy Short Link: Copy What do you get when you combine a pogo stick, a quadcopter, and engineering students from the University of Toronto?
- ▪This thing, apparently– a “monopedal hopping robot” that uses a spikey, pivoting foot pad tensioned by what look like elastic bands to keep it upright on all terrain from soft sand to hard ice.
- ▪The thrust from the four propellers is what gives the energy to get the robot moving, but its pogo-like hopping is entirely down to the spring-loaded single legged “landing gear”.
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Pogo-Bot Goes All Terrain With Compliant Foot No comments by: Tyler August September 30, 2026 Title: Copy Short Link: Copy What do you get when you combine a pogo stick, a quadcopter, and engineering students from the University of Toronto? This thing, apparently– a “monopedal hopping robot” that uses a spikey, pivoting foot pad tensioned by what look like elastic bands to keep it upright on all terrain from soft sand to hard ice. It’s an interesting concept. The thrust from the four propellers is what gives the energy to get the robot moving, but its pogo-like hopping is entirely down to the spring-loaded single legged “landing gear”.
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