Kaboom! Controlled explosions in the legs of this silicone 'soft robot' make it leap higher than 30 times its own height. Researchers led by George Whitesides, a chemist at Harvard University in ...
Most robots use electric actuators, but this little fella packs a lot more punch. Researchers have created a new type of minuscule combustion engine that gives this tiny frog robot explosive leaping ...
Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A, Mathematical and Physical Sciences, Vol. 263, No. 1312 (Aug. 22, 1961), pp. 51-57 (9 pages) The combustion of gaseous methyl iodide has been ...