History Main / HoppingMachine

* ''VideoGame/DustyRevenge'' have Craven's mecha in the final battle, who can somehow hop around the area as he tries using his machine to stomp you underfoot.

* ''VideoGame/{{Hangzo}}'' have numerous hopping robot mooks in the factory level, and a boss which is a two-legged mecha whose main attack is by hopping in and out of the screen trying to squash you underneath.

* The [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann_Oberth#The_Moon_Car Moon Car]] proposed by German scientist Hermann Oberth in TheFifties.

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* Darth Drongo's AT-BT (All Terrain Bouncing Transport, or "Roo-Bot") in the Australian FanFilm ''WebVideo/StarWarsDownunder''. AwesomeButImpractical, as it's difficult to shoot someone when you're jumping up and down like a demented kangaroo.
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[[caption-width-right:300:That's one way to put spring in your step.]]

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* ComicBook/GastonLagaffe's PerpetualMotionMachine, a conical spring with a red ball attached to the top. After its first appearance, it is occasionally seen boinging around the office.

* In the ''Series/RedDwarf'' 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 Creator/BruceSterling, the heroine rescues her brother using a hopping vehicle. Later, that brother has some drugs and other items smuggled across the border to him using a one-legged hopping robot carrier.

* Parodied in ''Literature/StarWarped'', a spoof of the ''Star Wars'' movies. The battle on Planet Brathmoki (the Planet Hoth expy) have the Empire spoof sending out Monopods, one-legged machines that moves around by hopping, only to fail spectacularly since [[DidntThinkThisThrough said battle is on an ice-covered world]] which predictably [[EpicFail leads to all Monopods slipping and crashing]]. One of them even tapdances before hitting the ground!

* In ''TabletopGame/BattleTech'', the [[https://www.sarna.net/wiki/File:3055u_Falconer.jpg Falconer]] Battlemech is memetically known as being one. Due to having jump jets and legs that have no visible knees, it's a running joke that it can't actually walk and is forced to jump everywhere (which is not far off from how players tend to run it).

* The Rabbit Ambulance from ''Webcomic/{{Achewood}}''.

* [[Creator/{{Pixar}} The Luxo lamp.]]
* A Disney homefront WartimeCartoon starring WesternAnimation/{{Goofy}} proposed saving on rationed gasoline and tires by using pogo sticks as regular transportation.
* WesternAnimation/WileECoyote tried using a jet-propelled pogo stick - it didn't go well.
* Not a robot, but Coil Man from ''[[WesternAnimation/FrankensteinJr The Impossibles]]'' hops around on a spring leg.

* ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog'':

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* An enemy in ''VideoGame/SonicFrontiers'' is like a mobile bounce pad that Sonic's attacks will bounce off of unless he attacks with a GroundPound specifically.

* ''VideoGame/{{Slashout}}'' have robotic enemies in the Miniera Valley stage, one of them being bouncing robots on springs in place of legs who repeatedly tries leaping over and dropping on you. Appropriately enough (given the game's preference of GratuitousItalian) these enemies are named "Molla" (springs).
* ''VideoGame/SWATPolice'' have SpiderTank enemies who, rather than crawling around, hops around on it's four legs instead, from one side of the area to another while firing potshots at you.
* ''VideoGame/SystemShock'' features robots called Hoppers, which are ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin.

* In ''VideoGame/LegoStarWars'', when C-3P0 gets hit his leg falls off and he hops to get around.
* The Hopster from ''VideoGame/MakaiKingdom'', which appears again as the TX-6 Jumpstart from ''VideoGame/PrinnyCanIReallyBeTheHero''. "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 ''VideoGame/MegaMan1''. Every game of the original series has its own variation of that enemy.

* The second ''VideoGame/RoboCop'' game made for arcades have Robocop battling a sentient robotic turret with a single leg, which allows it to jump around the stage while attacking.

* The spring-like enemies in the ''VideoGame/BubbleBobble'' 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 ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'' that get around by hopping.
* The X-Bot from ''VideoGame/HeavyWeapon''. Don't let him hop on your tank, it's a OneHitKill!
* The Jumper enemies from ''VideoGame/MiniRobotWars''. They jump over all your units in a fashion similar to the Pogo Zombie from ''VideoGame/PlantsVsZombies''.
* The Automated Snowflake Inspector from ''VideoGame/PajamaSam 2''.

* The kangaroo-like Leaplashers from ''VideoGame/HorizonForbiddenWest'' move around like 'roos too.

* ''VideoGame/SWATPOlice'' have SpiderTank enemies who, rather than crawling around, hops around on it's four legs instead, from one side of the area to another while firing potshots at you.

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* As seen in the header, Big Eye from ''VideoGame/MegaMan'' reappears in manga form where he demonstrates his jumping ability to crush a guy.

* The Soviet Mars probe ''Phobos 2'' was intended to dop a hopping lander onto Mars's moon Phobos. Unfortunately, contact was lost with the probe before that could happen.