Instead of jumping , could you not use some flappy whegs instead?

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Always hankered after the idea of climbing onboard and then extruding metal wire into the interior of the robot.
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Basically a form of the Harlequins Kiss made real for any 40K fans
http://warhammer40k.wikia.com/wiki/Harlequin's_Kiss