Title: News from the Skippy Project: Reaching for the Performance Envelope Abstract: The Skippy project aims to create a highly athletic monopedal robot, called Skippy, having only two actuated degrees of freedom, and yet able to balance and orient itself quickly in 3D on its single point foot, and to perform precise hops and somersaults to a height of 3m. Skippy will be able to crash at high speed without damage, and get up unaided after a fall. Right now, the design of Skippy is nearly complete, and construction will soon begin. This talk will cover some of the ideas that went into the design of Skippy, as well as recent results on the high-performance balance control that Skippy will need.