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  • Disney's one-legged robot will hop its way into your heart

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    Mariella Moon
    Mariella Moon
    10.09.2016

    Disney's research division revealed last year that one of the company's goals is to bring its fictional characters to life... as robots. Well, folks, we may now be witnessing the birth of a robotic Tigger. The House of Mouse's scientists have designed a bouncy machine with one leg that can hop around without support. It can only stay upright for around 19 hops before it adorably topples over, but according to its creators, other one-legged robots and aren't as portable and can't balance on a single limb without a tether.