TAUB is the creation of Professor Amir Ayali and a research team constituted by Israel's Tel Aviv University and ORT Braude College faculty. This is a robot designed after a locust: it weighs under one ounce, is 4 inches long, and can jump up to 11.5 feet about 1,000 times on one battery. The robot is made from steel springs, carbon rods, and 3D printed plastic parts, and Professor Ayali even suggests that it could be mass-produced and sold for as little as $100. Is the future full of swarming and jumping 3D printed plagues of locust robots carrying out surveillance missions and other duties? It appears, with TAUB's arrival, that previously unimaginable things await us in our technological future. But we already knew that, didn't we? Read more at http://3dprint.com/114894/3d-printed-locust-robots/