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There's a lot of awesome stuff that happens with robots. Important advances. ... Wow, This Robot Kangaroo Really Looks Like a Kangaroo. By Lily Hay Newman. April 02, 2014 6:51 PM.

The Kangaroo’s human controller commands the robot with simple arm movements. While the BionicKangaroo is graceful in its jumps, it still needs a bit of help when turning and taking simple steps.

A development team from Festo's Bionic Learning Network, a German-based supplier of automation technology, has created a bionic kangaroo ...

A robot kangaroo that can hop to it. April 4, 2014. By Pam Tobey. While it can’t leap tall buildings in a single bound, this kangaroo is still pretty super.

The robot’s pilot directs its movement with a Myo armband from Thalmic Labs (see here for more on Myo). Gesture controls, instead of a flat 2D interface, may prove a more intuitive way to control ...

Scientists in Germany have created the world’s first robot kangaroo, the device is called the BionicKangaroo, and was created by German company Festo. The BionicKangaroo is designed to move in ...

Engineering firm Festo claims they create robotic animals in order to learn more about nature, blah blah, it's a robot kangaroo, does it need a reason? There Is No Real Need For This Robot ...

It’s thought that the robot kangaroo technology could lead to advances in endurance for products such as cars and other robots. The BionicKangaroo, which is made by the German tech company Festo ...

A comparison of Festo's robo kangaroo and the real thing. Festo Festo, an industrial automation company based in Germany, has developed a robotic kangaroo that hops and moves like the real animal ...

A robot vaguely resembling a kangaroo will begin stacking sandwiches, drinks and readymade meals on shelves at a Japanese convenience store next month in a test that the bots makers, Telexistence ...