The innovative design of this combustion-powered robot, based on a roly-poly toy, and how it returns to an upright position after each jump is described in a fascinating study published in Soft Robotics, a peer-reviewed journal from Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers.

Michael Loepfe, Christoph Schumacher, Urs Lustenberger and Wendelin Stark, Institute for Chemical and Bioengineering (Zurich, Switzerland), describe a soft robot powered by a mixture of nitrous oxide/propane/butane gas that can function even over rough terrain.

The authors provide a detailed description of the activity of the robot and suggest future advances that could improve the jumping ability and performance of the robot.

Editor-in-Chief Barry A. Trimmer said that although this robot is a hybrid of soft and hard components, he thinks it demonstrates how incorporating new materials can open up all sorts of robot capabilities.

One 7.5g piece of the Estechoc a day can help improve blood supply to the skin, the Mirror reported.

Academics from Cambridge University are launching the world’s first ever ‘beauty chocolate’ which contains high levels of two powerful anti-oxidants.

The dark chocolate, which has taken years to refine, has 70 percent cocoa and contains as many cocoa flavanols as a 100g piece of regular chocolate and as much astaxanthin as 300g of wild salmon.

The man behind the product was former Cambridge student Dr Ivan Petyaev, who has previously claimed that the sexually transmitted infection Chlamydia could treated by eating French cheese.