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popsci.com - 10/23/2008

Robo Hop | Popular Science

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We’re not sure which is scarier, getting lost in the woods or being rescued by a swarm of mini robotic grasshoppers. But it’s search-and-rescue situations that a Swiss robotics lab had in mind when they built the world’s smallest hopping robot. Small robots have a tough time traversing rocky ...

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hop-on.com - 10/23/2008

Welcome to Hop

— hop-on.com — Home | Cell Phones | Mobile Gaming | Accessories | US Prepaid | Text to Win |... Intellectual Properties | Customer Support | Press | Privacy Policy Copyright ¬© 2007 Hop-on, Inc. All Rights Reserved. (more) Welcome to Hop

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prnewswire.com - 10/24/2008

Hop-on Will Launch Its Google Android Alliance Phone at 2009 International CES

— prnewswire.com — IRVINE, Calif., Oct. 24 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Hop-on (Pink Sheets: HPNN) will be launching its new open "Android... Platform" device at the Consumer Electronic Show, in Las Vegas January 2009. This phone will be sold for under $200. The Open Handset ... (more) Hop-on Will Launch Its Google Android Alliance Phone at ...

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boygeniusreport.com - 10/26/2008

Hop-on getting in the Android game

— boygeniusreport.com — It looks like there’s a new player coming soon to the Android game. Hop-on announced today that... it will unveil its first Android-powered device at the upcoming CES 2009 conference this January in Las Vegas. What’s more, the handset will be sold for ... (more) Hop-on getting in the Android game

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Biomimetic designs strike again: Rescuebots
Core77 — ... design their search-and-rescue 'bot, which can easily traverse rocky and difficult terrain due to its grasshopper- and locust-inspired jumping legs. The two-inch robots can jump eight feet into the air, even while loaded up with miniature sensors and cameras meant to relay your rescue-needing-ass' location back to the S&R; guys. Me, I'd still prefer a Saint Bernard with a little barrel of brandy around his neck, but I'm just old-fashioned like that. via pop sci (more...)

Robot grasshoppers could carry out future search & rescue
SlashGear — ... Nature might once again educate robot design, as engineers Dario Floreano and Mirko Kovac of the Laboratory of Intelligent Systems in Lausanne turn to grasshoppers for the next generation of search and exploration devices.  The pair noted that grasshoppers handle uneven terrain by hopping, clearing up to three feet at a time and avoiding climbing over rocks and other obstacles; small robots have the same problems tackling such terrain, and so Floreano and Kovac built tiny robots that can jump up to eight feet using spring-loaded legs. ...