OK, I see where you're coming from. The sandflea is a very practical, application-driven platform, and our robot is just a simple scientific tool meant to test new ideas about jumping. We were interested in the science of the new modes of locomotion so there wasn't much value in developing the landing for this work. We'll try to stick the landing next time.
That makes more sense; I, too originally read the post with a different type of robot in mind. After re-watching the video and re-reading the article (and of course reading these HN discussions), I'm appreciating Salto more for what it is: an excellent example of well-engineered biomimicry with a lot of potential for future robots.
