If you go through Martinbuehler homepage, you are sure to get a glimpse of a variety of robot projects underway to compete with humans in a vast array of activities.
Robots like the LittleDog from Boston Dynamics, will accompany you anywhere, be the battlefield, underwater, playground and anywhere else for that matter.
And from the same makers here we have some kind of a hopping jockey robot, it is not possible to provide you with any details on the find however, here is a video that would give you a faint idea of the hopping boy.
The robot is only a prototype of a hopping robot that’s ridden by a jockey. It has a controlled forward speed, hopping height and balance, while the jockey maintains the sideways balance. It may be risky to be on one yourself, but sure a pleasure to see one in action though.
Via: Newscientist
