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Johns Hopkins University

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Johns Hopkins undergraduate Emily Palmer peers into a transparent enclosure where a spider cricket prepares for its close-up before high-speed video cameras that will capture its powerful jumping ability in slow motion. The mechanical engineering research is designed to study biological skills that could lead to a new generation of tiny robots.

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