{"id":616898,"date":"2026-10-01T00:54:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T00:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/616898\/"},"modified":"2026-10-01T00:54:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T00:54:10","slug":"pogo-bot-goes-all-terrain-with-compliant-foot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/616898\/","title":{"rendered":"Pogo-Bot Goes All Terrain With Compliant Foot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What do you get when you combine a pogo stick, a quadcopter, and engineering students from the University of Toronto? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=fVk2n5eXR_U\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">This thing<\/a>, apparently\u2013 a \u201cmonopedal hopping robot\u201d that uses a spikey, pivoting foot pad tensioned by what look like elastic bands to keep it upright on all terrain from soft sand to hard ice.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s an interesting concept. The thrust from the four propellers is what gives the energy to get the robot moving, but its pogo-like hopping is entirely down to the spring-loaded single legged \u201clanding gear\u201d. Early iterations just used a spike on the end of that leg, but that failed in ways that some might find humorous, which you will see if you watch the video embedded below. Giving the monopod an actual foot with some traction and the ability to pivot and match the terrain works much better\u2013 now not only can this robot leap tall fences in a single bound, an errant ice patch won\u2019t send it skittering away.<\/p>\n<p>This isn\u2019t the first one-legged robot we\u2019ve seen; some<a href=\"https:\/\/hackaday.com\/2018\/10\/09\/one-legged-jumping-robot-shows-that-control-is-everything\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> only use their leg<\/a> while others <a href=\"https:\/\/hackaday.com\/2025\/04\/12\/tiny-pogo-robot-gets-wings-does-flips\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">have wings,<\/a> but this odd quadcopter is the first we\u2019ve seen to brave Canadian winter. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What do you get when you combine a pogo stick, a quadcopter, and engineering students from the University&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":616899,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[111,139,69,147],"class_list":["post-616898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-science","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=616898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616898\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/616899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=616898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=616898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=616898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}