Daredevil Andy Torbet takes on the bounding brilliance of the grasshopper, as he is challenged to match its ability to leap ten times its body length.

He discovers that the secret to their gravity-defying leap lies in the elastic muscles in their knees, which enables them to store potential energy.

Armed with this knowledge, Andy takes on the Beyond Bionic challenge of finding the best tech to help him jump over 17 meters high.

This is what makes grasshoppers so good at jumping?

This is from the series: Beyond Bionic.

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