Meet Salto-1P, the bouncing robot that has been in development at UC Berkeley’s Biomimetic Millisystems Lab. The researchers proposed that making a robot that bounced instead of walking would actually be more reliable on rough terrain than a bipedal one – we’ve certainly seen enough of those fall over. Salto can reorient itself by pushing against vertical obstacles. The newest version adds two thrusters and a tail to increase precision while reorienting mid-jump. The video, posted in June, shows Salto hopping around in a motion capture environment, which helps the robot follow an assigned path using an off-board computer.