Article "Festo's Fantastical Flying Robots"
Festo's chief pilot gives us a private demo of its eMotionButterfly, AirJelly, and AirPenguin
by Evan Ackerman
August 19, 2016
Qualification for Industry 4.0 with the CP Factory
Published on Feb 23, 2016
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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.
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.
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.
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
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
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