Meet Salto, the One-Legged Robot With an Incredible Leap

Day by day, human beings grow more and more inadequate. They can burn us in a foot race. And they can even read our damn minds. Now a little robot from the University of California Berkeley is putting on a jumping clinic. Meet Salto, the bot that not only leaps four times higher than its height--higher than you could ever manage--but strings together multiple jumps and bounds off walls in the process.