If you've ever seen people at the gym or the park jumping, hopping or hurling weighted balls to the ground, chances are they were doing plyometric exercises.

These are high-intensity activities that require the body to absorb a lot of impact when landing on the ground or catching ...

Jumping lunges are a dynamic exercise that combines the strength-building benefits of traditional lunges with an explosive ...

Photo by cottonbro studio/Pexels If you've ever seen people at the gym or the park jumping, hopping or hurling weighted balls to the ground, chances ...

There are many more examples of plyometric exercises. What ties all these moves ... that require the body to absorb a lot of impact when landing on the ground or catching medicine balls.

Sticking the perfect landing can take years of practice for a human gymnast, and it seems the same is true for little monopedal jumping robots. Salto-1P, an old acquaintance here on Hackaday ...