Acrobatics

Disney’s animatronics are coming a long way from hippos that wiggle their ears. In the (relatively) near future, robotic versions of Iron Man or Buzz Lightyear could be performing autonomous acrobatics overhead in Disney theme parks, thanks to the newly-unveiled Stuntronics robot.

A robotics group at the University of Pennsylvania has made a huge success from teaching one of their robots to jump and leap.

A home-made gymnastic robot swings on a horizontal bar and "sticks" the landing.