Salto tiny robot can leap almost 10 TIMES its height every second

The robot, called Salto, can jump into the air and spring off a wall, at a rate of 1.75 metres (5.74 feet) per second. Its designers hope that one day the robot could be used to jump around rubble in search and rescue missions. Salto weighs just 100 grams (3.5 ounces), and is 26 centimetres (10.2 inches) tall when fully extended. To build the robot, engineers from the University of California, Berkley, studied the animal kingdom's most vertically agile creature - the African bush baby, or galago. Galagos can jump five times in four seconds to gain a combined height of 8.5 metres (27.8 feet).