UC Berkeley Biomimetic Millisystems Lab · legged machine
Salto / Salto-1P
A 118-gram monopod that jumps up to 1.25 m and does most of its control while airborne. Salto-1P is the later, untethered version.
- Price
- —Not published
- Height
- —Not published
- Weight
- 0.1 kgHeavier than 4%
- Payload
- —Not published
- Speed
- —Not published
- Battery
- —Not published
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Why it matters
A one-legged jumping robot able to bounce off walls and chain jumps, steering itself in mid-air with a tail and thrusters.
Real-world use
No customers or deployments reported yet.
Timeline
- First shown
- 2016
- Released
- Not yet
Maker
UC Berkeley Biomimetic Millisystems LabUniversity lab · Berkeley, California, USAHow it stacks up
Against other legged & novel that publish the figure. Pick a measure.
Salto / Salto-1P is heavier than 4% of the 25 other legged & novel that publish a weight. Bars show the 7 closest in date.
Salto / Salto-1P has more joints than 6% of the 16 other legged & novel that publish a joints. Bars show the 7 closest in date.
Not published by the maker: height, speed, payload, battery, price.
Public attention
How much public attention Salto / Salto-1P gets, from open data.
- No Wikipedia article of its own yet
- No recent press stories listed yet
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What’s inside
The parts the company has talked about publicly.
- Movement
- Walks on legs · 4 joints
- How it runs
- Assisted. Researchers steered its jumps with commands while it controlled its own balance and landing, at first using external motion capture.
- Actuators & motors
- Brushless DC motor (modified Scorpion S-1804) driving the leg through a latex series-elastic torsion spring and linkage; reaction-wheel tail; two propeller thrusters on Salto-1P
- Sensors & vision
- InvenSense MPU6000 IMU and magnetic encoders on leg, tail and motor
- Compute
- ImageProc 2.5 board with a dsPIC33 microcontroller; ground station runs ROS or Python
- Battery & power
- 14.8 V, 220 mAh lithium pack, about 12 minutes
- Materials & build
- Carbon-fibre honeycomb and tubes, cast polyurethane, aluminium gears, 3D-printed parts
- Other details
- 0.118 kg, 31 cm tall; jumps up to 1.25 m
Lineage
Every UC Berkeley Biomimetic Millisystems Lab (Justin Yim, Ronald Fearing) machine in order.
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Made, sold and where
Unit counts are usually company figures; analysts often disagree.
- Price
- Not published
- How to get one
- No official buying page found
- Built
- Research robot
- Sold or delivered
- not sold
- Where it is sold or used
- UC Berkeley
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