SpaceHopper
SpaceHopper began in 2021 as an ETH Zurich bachelor's student focus project developing a three-legged hopping robot for low-gravity exploration. The student team built a platform that can jump, reorient itself using coordinated leg motions and land under control, with potential applications on asteroids and small moons. Earth-based test rigs and the 83rd ESA Parabolic Flight Campaign validated locomotion and attitude-control capabilities in simulated microgravity. The work subsequently continued as an ETH research project.
Identity
- Field
- Space robotics, legged locomotion, low-gravity mobility, attitude control and experimental validation
- Name
- SpaceHopper
- Region
- EU
- Status
- historical
Details
- Description
- SpaceHopper began in 2021 as an ETH Zurich bachelor's student focus project developing a three-legged hopping robot for low-gravity exploration. The student team built a platform that can jump, reorient itself using coordinated leg motions and land under control, with potential applications on asteroids and small moons. Earth-based test rigs and the 83rd ESA Parabolic Flight Campaign validated locomotion and attitude-control capabilities in simulated microgravity. The work subsequently continued as an ETH research project.
- Latitude
- 47.37628
- Location
- Longitude
- 8.547857
- University
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- Creation Time
- August 7, 2026 at 20:40:58 UTC
- Updated Time
- October 29, 2026 at 13:16:48 UTC