https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/04/220427154102.htm

"The motivation came from a scientific question," said Hawkes, who as a roboticist seeks to understand the many possible methods for a machine to be able to navigate its environment. "We wanted to understand what the limits were on engineered jumpers." While there are centuries' worth of studies on biological jumpers (that would be us in the animal kingdom), and decades' worth of research on mostly bio-inspired mechanical jumpers, he said, the two lines of inquiry have been kept somewhat separate.

"There hadn't really been a study that compares and contrasts the two and how their limits are different -- whether engineered jumpers are really limited to the same laws that biological jumpers are," Hawkes said.