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The four-wheeled hopper robots will navigate autonomously by wheel and jump with one mighty let onto or over obstacles of more than 25 feet.

The Precision Urban Hopper is funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. As part of the DARPA project, Sandia developed the shoebox-sixed, GPS guided, unmanned ground robots. The overall goal of the decrease the number of casualties in combat. In addition, to providing military assistance, the hopping capabilities of the robots could be used in law enforcement, homeland security, and search and rescue applications in challenging terrain and in planetary exploration.

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