View Full Version : Festo AG & Co. KG, industrial control and automation, Esslingen am Neckar, Germany
Airicist
9th May 2013, 20:15
Website - festo.com (https://www.festo.com)
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Festo (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Festo) on Wikipedia
CEO - Thomas Böck (https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomas-b%C3%B6ck-58005967)
Products and projects:
Festo Didactic (https://pr.ai/showthread.php?t=19619)
BionicMobileAssistant (https://pr.ai/showthread.php?t=23365), robotic mobile assistant
BionicSwift (https://pr.ai/showthread.php?t=23163), safe aerial acrobatics as a swarm
BionicSoftHand (https://pr.ai/showthread.php?t=19581), pneumatic robot hand with artificial intelligence
BionicSoftArm (https://pr.ai/showthread.php?t=19580), modular pneumatic lightweight robot
BionicFinWave (https://pr.ai/showthread.php?t=18491), underwater robot with a fin drive
BionicWheelBot (https://pr.ai/showthread.php?t=18232), robotic flic-flac spider
BionicFlyingFox (https://pr.ai/showthread.php?t=18231), robotic bat
BionicWorkplace, BionicMotionRobot, BionicCobot (https://pr.ai/showthread.php?16374), human-robot collaboration with artificial intelligence
automation concepts for sample analysis (https://pr.ai/showthread.php?14573)
3D Cocooner (https://pr.ai/showthread.php?14533), bionic lattice structures from the robotic spinneret
FreeMotionHandling (https://pr.ai/showthread.php?14532), autonomous flying gripping sphere
Cognigame (https://pr.ai/showthread.php?12138), brain-computer interface
Bionic Elephant Trunk (https://pr.ai/showthread.php?5382), Bionic Handling Assistant
FlexShapeGripper (https://pr.ai/showthread.php?10800), gripping modelled on a chameleon’s tongue
eMotionButterflies (https://pr.ai/showthread.php?10796), robotic butterflies
BionicANTs (https://pr.ai/showthread.php?10787), robotic ants
BionicBee (https://pr.ai/showthread.php?t=25334)
AquaJelly (https://pr.ai/showthread.php?5800)
AirJelly (https://pr.ai/showthread.php?5801)
AquaPenguin (https://pr.ai/showthread.php?5796)
AirPenguin (https://pr.ai/showthread.php?5797)
Aqua_Ray (https://pr.ai/showthread.php?5799)
Air_Ray (https://pr.ai/showthread.php?5798)
Airic’s arm (https://pr.ai/showthread.php?3317)
Airacuda (https://pr.ai/showthread.php?5802)
BionicOpter (https://pr.ai/showthread.php?1136)
BionicKangaroo (https://pr.ai/showthread.php?5780)
eMotionSpheres (https://pr.ai/showthread.php?5666)
TentacleGripper (https://pr.ai/showthread.php?16373)
MultiChoiceGripper, LearningGripper (https://pr.ai/showthread.php?5667)
SmartBird (https://pr.ai/showthread.php?5803)
SupraMotion (https://pr.ai/showthread.php?5669)
Airicist
5th September 2013, 10:25
https://vimeo.com/41070526
ExoHand de Festo
April 26, 2012
Airicist
17th September 2013, 16:18
https://vimeo.com/74619693
Learning Gripper
September 16, 2013
The LearningGripper from Festo looks like an abstract form of the human hand. The four fingers of the gripper are driven by twelve pneumatic bellows actuators with low-level pressurisation. Thanks to the machine learning process, the gripper is able to teach itself to carry out complex actions such as the targeted gripping and positioning of an object.
Airicist
17th September 2013, 16:19
https://vimeo.com/74623033
Wave Handling
September 16, 2013
Airicist
17th September 2013, 18:31
https://vimeo.com/74625087
Supra Motion
September 16, 2013
Airicist
31st March 2014, 19:32
https://youtu.be/prxTxlAqUcg
Festo - DualWingGenerator
Published on Mar 31, 2014
Self-optimising, highly efficient and inspired by bird flight: with the DualWingGenerator, Festo has developed an extraordinary technology platform that uses two pairs of opposing wings to generate power.
Airicist
5th April 2014, 20:34
https://vimeo.com/90997145
Smartbird in Tadeo
April 4, 2014
Airicist
7th May 2014, 22:05
https://youtu.be/7LfmNnw3JNQ
Robotino as autonomous transport system for MPS
Published on May 7, 2014
Airicist
1st December 2014, 19:46
https://youtu.be/zxMK1QFmyvU
Festo Didactic Opens its “Center for Workforce Technology Education”
Published on Dec 8, 2014
Official, grand opening of Festo Didactic "Center for Workforce Technology Education" in Eatontown, NJ. This training center will provide the high-tech level of training Americans need to secure the 2 million U.S. manufacturing jobs that go unfilled because of shortfalls in skills and training
Airicist
13th November 2015, 02:46
https://youtu.be/NNNfn7ac-rY
Festo's Extraordinary Robots That Mimic Biology II: Bionic Learning Network
Uploaded on Nov 26, 2010
Nature is our best engineer, and the finest robots are the ones that mimic it. Festo, a multinational robotics firm based in Germany, has made some of the most amazing biologically inspired robots out there. In one of our previous posts, "Festo's Extraordinary Robots That Mimic Biology I", you have seen air-penguins and mechanical elephant-arms but these are just few of Festo creations. In these videos, the air-ray, the bionic air-fish, the aqua-jelly, and more are shown. Festo is one of the world leaders in automation, with millions of parts installed in factories all over the globe. Their animal inspired robots are created by the efforts of their Bionic Learning Network. This collection of research groups from academia and industry is part advanced research initiative, part education organization.
Festo is a German industrial control and automation company based in Esslingen,Germany. Festo is an engineering driven company that sells pneumatic and electric actuators primarily to the automation industry.
Airicist
23rd February 2016, 21:13
https://youtu.be/w8BrJtdhSwQ
Qualification for Industry 4.0 with the CP Factory
Published on Feb 23, 2016
The CP Factory is a unique cyber-physical research and training platform to impart knowledge on Industry 4.0 technologies. This modular and expandable model factory contains the latest key technologies and applications of mechatronics and automation in a networked industrial production system e.g. Cyber-Physical Systems, RFID, NFC, Plug & Produce, MES, mobile Robotik etc.
"The Cyber-Physical Factory (https://www.festo-didactic.com/int-en/highlights/qualification-for-industry-4.0/cyber-physical-factory)"
The universal research and learning platform
Airicist
20th August 2016, 00:07
Article "Festo's Fantastical Flying Robots (https://spectrum.ieee.org/video/robotics/robotics-hardware/festos-fantastical-flying-robots)"
Festo's chief pilot gives us a private demo of its eMotionButterfly, AirJelly, and AirPenguin
by Evan Ackerman
August 19, 2016
Airicist
27th April 2017, 00:13
https://youtu.be/caZNCR0NRBE
Festo unveils new bionic robotics at Hannover Messe
Published on Apr 26, 2017
A regular exhibitor at Hannover Messe, the German leader is showcasing spectacular new bionic industrial robotics at this year’s fair. Octopus Gripper is a robotic structure inspired by the octopus.
Airicist
19th March 2019, 18:10
https://youtu.be/DTcPix_foaU
How does Festo use AI?
Published on Mar 19, 2019
In this video you can get an insight how AI will have an enormous impact on Festo’s product portfolio.
Airicist
4th June 2020, 13:00
https://youtu.be/_rvza77F1F0
Bionic robots with Artificial Intelligence by Festo Robotics
Jun 4, 2020
Festo is a German multinational industrial control and automation company based in Esslingen am Neckar, Germany. Festo is an engineering-driven company, producing and selling pneumatic and electrical control and drive technology for factory or process automation. Festo Didactic is a world market leader in industrial education and consultancy and is a Founding Sponsor Partner of the WorldSkills Mechatronics Competitions. Sales subsidiaries, distribution centers and factories are located in 61 countries worldwide. The company was named after its founders Albert Fezer and Gottlieb Stoll. The most famous manufacturer of bionic robots (that is, those that imitate nature) is the Festo company. In general, the company makes money by supplying electronics, including servo drives of its own design. But since 2006, there has been a separate direction in creating biorobots in it. Fiono's bionic developments are part of the Bionic Learning Network consortium. It includes 12 institutes and universities, including the University of Stuttgart, the Technical University of Berlin and the Delft University of Technology, as well as large companies: Effekt-Technik GmbH, JNTec GbR, Sachs Engineering and others. But the core development team is Festo engineers, designers and biologists. The company claims that they create biorobots for factories. A few viable examples are already there. But these are not the biorobots that Festo became famous for. Therefore, the main question is: does the company really develop working solutions or is it just PR? And perhaps for military purposes? However, among the development of "Festo" there are many devices of dubious practical use. These are flying penguins, jellyfish floating in the air, controlled helium balls, a robot - a flying fox, a robot gull, a robot kangaroo. It is difficult to imagine them in industrial production, they cannot carry the load and are suitable only for observations from the air. According to the authors of the concepts, these robots were created for testing servo drives, studying aerodynamics and controlling groups of flying objects. Interest "Festo" in the development of flying robots does not fade. Festo created these amazing robotic insects to demonstrate robust functional integration, advances in facilitating robotic designs, and the communications capabilities of individual systems.
Airicist
15th October 2020, 17:32
https://youtu.be/_qRGIRvr06w
Festo Bionic Learning Network: Innovations inspired by nature
Oct 15, 2020
Whether animals or plants, whether in the water, on land or in the air, nature provides the model for many technical innovations and inventions. This is summed up in the term bionics, which is a combination of the words ‘biology‘ and ‘electronics’. At Festo, learning from nature has a long history, as our Bionic Learning Network is based on using nature as the source for future technologies like robots, assistance systems or drive solutions.
Airicist2
12th June 2022, 11:23
https://youtu.be/CABu3v5EX-A
May 30, 2022
Elephant trunk as model. With the Bionic E-Trunk our developers have taken the idea of miniaturisation further and have implemented electrically driven natural movements for the first time.
Find out more: https://www.festo.com/bionice-trunk
Airicist2
12th June 2022, 11:24
https://youtu.be/sQxG7vBQk_w
Festo – PhotoBionicCell
May 30, 2022
Algae are small climate savers. They absorb ten times more carbon dioxide (CO₂) than land plants. In bioreactors equipped with appropriate sensors, control technology and automation, the efficiency of algae can be increased to a hundred times that of land plants. This shows that they have a significant potential for a climate-neutral circular economy. With the PhotoBionicCell research project we are demonstrating a potential approach for industrial biologisation in the future.
Find out more: https://www.festo.com/photobioniccell