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Design and Technology KS2: Beyond Bionic

Action adventurer Andy Torbet has scaled the world's highest mountains, dived the deepest seas and wing-suited through the skies. Now he's exploring the science behind some of nature’s most incredible animals to see if he can recreate their super powers using technology.

This collection includes:

  • Can technology help Andy match the amazing super-strength of a gorilla?
  • What makes grasshoppers so good at jumping? Andy uses a bungee cord to find out.
  • Andy attempts to recreate the hummingbirds' amazing ability to hover using a gravity-defying Flyboard.
  • How are Japanese spider crabs able to survive huge pressures at extreme depths?
  • Andy comes jaw to jaw with one of the ocean's fiercest predators, but what makes mako sharks such fast swimmers?
  • What makes an ostrich such a fast runner? Andy tries to outrun the fastest bird in the world on two legs.
  • Andy struggles to climb a ten storey, glass building to match a gecko lizard, but what makes these lizards such good climbers?

These short films are from the ±«Óătv series, Beyond Bionic.

Suitable for Key Stage 2 and Second Level students.

Andy Torbet explores what makes mako sharks such fast swimmers.

What makes mako sharks such fast swimmers?

Andy Torbet explores what makes an ostrich such a such fast runner.

What makes an ostrich such a fast runner?

Andy Torbet explores what makes gecko lizards such good climbers.

What makes gecko lizards such good climbers?

Andy Torbet explores how hummingbirds are able to defy gravity and hover.

How do hummingbirds defy gravity to hover?

Andy Torbet explores what makes grasshoppers so good at jumping.

What makes grasshoppers so good at jumping?

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