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Line 1: {{trope}} [[File:~~rambulance_6070~~rambulance 6070.gif\|frame\|link=achewood\|[http://achewood.com/index.php?date=09252003 Ambulance all employing the principles of hopping instead of running]]] Screw wheels, treads or walking. For some robots and vehicles, their sole means of mobility is jumping or hopping around, as silly as that might seem at first glance. Line 8: See also [[Spring Coil]]. {{examples}} == [[Comic Books]] == * The Leapfrog from ''[[Runaways]]''. == [[Literature]] == * In the ''[[~~Red Dwarf (TV)\|~~Red Dwarf]]'' novel ''Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers'', cars on the Spanish-owned port of Mimas on one of the moons of Saturn are a variation on the trope: they normally employ wheels but can also use hydraulic legs to leap into the air in order to bypass the city's notorious traffic congestion. The first chapter, in which Lister is scraping a living hotwiring cabs for the night and picking up fares, goes into some detail about the disadvantages of this technology. * In the opening of ''[[Heavy Weather]]'' by Bruce Sterling, the heroine rescues her brother using one of these. Later, that brother has some drugs and other items smuggled across the border to him using a one-legged hopping robot carrier. * At the end of ''[[Sesame Street ~~(TV)~~\|Bert's Hall of Great Inventions]]'', Bert shows Ernie an electric hopping baby carriage. As in the rest of the book, Ernie is reminded of an animal with similar abilities. == [[Live -Action ~~Television~~TV]] == * ''[[Knight Rider]]'': KITT can do something similar to the ''[[~~Red Dwarf (TV)\|~~Red Dwarf]]'' example when the situation warrants, which is pretty much [[Once an Episode]]. * ''[[Mighty Morphin Power Rangers]]'': The Black Frog Ninjazord, naturally, what with being a frog. == [[Tabletop Games]] == * ''[[GURPS]]'' 4th edition ''Ultratech'' handbook includes, in its chapter on [[Nanomachines]], the "hopper" ~~type--microbots~~type—microbots that resemble metallic fleas or crickets. == [[Video Games]] == * In the RTS game ''[[~~Aztec Wars (Video Game)\|~~Aztec Wars]]'' one of the Aztec military units is a cannon that moves by hopping around on one giant foot. * ''[[System Shock]]'' features robots called Hoppers, which are [[Exactly What It Says Onon the Tin]]. * ''[[~~Duke Nukem II (Video Game)\|~~Duke Nukem II]]'' has hopping, one-eyed robots as one of the enemy types. * Half-assed example: In ''[[Lego Star Wars]]'', when C-3P0 gets hit his leg falls off and he hops to get around. * The TX-6 Jumpstart from ''[[Prinny]]: Can I Really Be the Hero''. "No one knows if it's supposed to move like that, or if it's just broken." * The [http://megaman.wikia.com/wiki/Big_Eye Big Eye] from ''[[Mega Man (~~Video~~video ~~Game~~game)\|Mega Man]]''. Every game of the original series has its own variation of that enemy, of which the one from the first and second game being the [[Demonic Spiders\|worst ones]]. * The Egg Spring from ''[[Sonic Advance]]''. * The spring-like enemies in the ''[[~~Bubble Bobble (Video Game)\|~~Bubble Bobble]]'' series. If trapped in a bubble, they tend to take a very short time before breaking out. * Though not technically robots, there are some enemies and statues in ''[[The Legend of Zelda]]'' that get around by hopping. * The X-Bot from ''[[Heavy Weapon]]''. Don't let him hop on your tank, it's a [[One-Hit Kill]]! * The Jumper enemies from ''[[~~Mini Robot Wars (Video Game)\|~~Mini Robot Wars]]''. They jump over all your units in a fashion similar to the Pogo Zombie from ''[[~~Plants vs. Zombies (Video Game)\|~~Plants vs. Zombies]]''. * One vehicle from ''[[Makai Kingdom]]'' hops around on a single springy leg thing. It's even called the Hopster. Line 50 ⟶ 49: * The [http://www.ai.mit.edu/projects/leglab/robots/3D_hopper/3D_hopper.html 3D One-Leg Hopper]. * Semi-example: [http://everything2.com/title/Self-Healing+Minefield Self-Healing Minefield]. * One of the proto-helicopters frequently included in the [[Dawn of Flight Failures Montage]] is one, albeit not intentionally so. {{reflist}} [[Category:~~Robot Roll Call~~{{PAGENAME}}]] [[Category:Robot]] [[Category:~~Hopping~~Robot ~~Machine~~Roll Call]]▼ [[Category:Vehicle Tropes]] ▲[[Category:Hopping Machine]] ~~[[Category:Trope]]~~