If the Parrot Sumo Jumping drone previews the shape of future robots to come, then by gosh, they will look scary if you blow them up to a much bigger size, at least, and conjure up a mech war ...

The Jumping Sumo's secret weapon is a spring system built into its backside. This enables the drone to jump at two different trajectories.

AR.Drone maker Parrot is showcasing two new toys at CES 2014 - the MiniDrone and the Jumping Sumo. French firm Parrot brings its cool, new toys to the CES 2014 in Las Vegas this week.

The Jumping Sumo also comes with a few other nifty features, including the latest Wi-Fi standard, dual-band 802.11ac, as well as a QVGA camera to let users see through the Jumping Sumo’s ...

The Jumping Sumo is a robot insect which is controlled via 5GHz Wi-Fi with a smartphone or tablet. It spins, jumps up to 80cm and makes 90-degree turns.

Parrot is trying to expand the reach of its consumer drone products with two new gadgets now available to buy, the Jumping Sumo and the Rolling Spider.

The Jumping Sumo can reach heights of up to three feet with a spring-loaded arm in a 160-foot radius.

Parrot Jumping Sumo The new video below also provides a look at the also new Parrot Jumping Sumo. The first robot-insect, controlled via a smartphone or tablet using Wi-Fi 5GHz.

The latest toy robot from Parrot, maker of the popular AR.Drone quadcopter, is now shipping a two-wheeled jumping robot that you control with your smartphone. WSJ Personal Tech Editor Wilson ...

Trust us, when the robots finally take over, you’ll be seeing a lot more of these flying wedges…but those tiny bulldozers will be circling our fleshy, meaty necks. Videos after the jump!

First they showed me the "robot-insect" christened the Jumping Sumo, which connects to your phone or laptop via Wi-Fi, and uses two big wheels to roll around.

Yesterday we gave you our hands-on demo video of the latest MiniDrone quadricopter from Parrot, and today we got a demo of the new Parrot Jumping Sumo: a Wi-Fi connected “insect robot” toy ...