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Robot Pets: German scientists are bionic kangaroo

4 April 2014 Last updated at 16:14 BST clock

A team of engineers in Germany produced a bionic kangaroo can jump and regain your balance.

It is also capable of energy recovery during a jump, save them for use on your next jump.

Festo has team not as a product for the market, but as an instrument to show aspiring young engineers the power of bionics.

It is the science that studies the designs in the natural world, and tries to copy the good of the people.

Information Dougal Shaw.

Video courtesy of Festo