What's the Best Way to Accelerate: Muscles or Springs? (1 of 1) (VIDEO)

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High-speed video of a silicon-based jumping micro-robot (m=8 mg). This material relates to a paper that appeared in the 27 April 2018 issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by M. Ilton at University of Massachusetts Amherst in Amherst, MA, and colleagues was titled, "The principles of cascading power limits in small, fast biological and engineered systems."

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Sarah Bergbreiter

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