The BionicKangaroo is easy to operate with gestures. A waving gesture sets it moving. The relevant hand signal makes it rotate around its own axis. A special wristband records the user’s movements and sends the signals via Bluetooth to the controller for the artificial kangaroo.
Our engineers paid special attention to the mobile energy supply of the artificial kangaroo. The team even developed two different concepts for this – one with an integrated compressor and one with a mobile high-pressure storage device. The locomotor system is made of laser-sintered components reinforced with carbon. As a result, the artificial animal weighs just seven kilograms with a height of around one metre, and it can jump up to 40 centimetres high and up to a distance of 80 centimetres.