Festo
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Festo has good form for pushing the envelope in robot development, previously showing off bio-inspired bot versions of ants, a kangaroo, flying penguins and more. Now the firm has revealed the latest developments, including aerobatic BionicSwifts.
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If you were using a robotic hand to manipulate delicate objects, you'd probably prefer that hand to be soft and gentle instead of hard and bony – plus it would help if the thing could teach itself how to perform tasks. Well, those are the selling features of Festo's new prototype BionicSoftHand.
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It was just back in March that German electrical automation company Festo unveiled two of its latest robots inspired by animals – a crawling/rolling spider and a flying fox bat. Now, it's taken the wraps off BionicFinWave, which moves like a cuttlefish.
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Festo, the German electrical automation company that previously brought us a robotic dragonfly, kangaroo and penguin, is back with a couple of new creations – a spider that can roll like a wheel, and a bat that flies by autopilot.
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After a quick introduction yesterday, we take a closer look at Festo's OctopusGripper, a versatile gripper for the production line of tomorrow. The Future Concepts robot has been designed to safely pick up, securely hold and gently put down objects in the workplace.
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The Bionic Learning Network arm of German automation company Festo has revealed three bio-inspired robots ahead of the Hannover Messe trade fair in April, a tentacle-packing pick and pack gripper and two lightweight robots designed for fluid movement.
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Rather than gradually forming an object layer by layer like a desktop extruder, the 3D Cocooner from Festo works more like a sophisticated robotic version of a CreoPop 3D printing pen, hardening the printed material with UV light as the structure is formed.
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Ahead of this month's Hannover Messe trade show in Germany, Festo's Bionic Learning Network has previewed a new helium-filled flyer dubbed the FreeMotionHandling concept that's able to take hold of an object, pick it up and fly it to another location for drop off.
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As a taste of things to come at next month's Hannover Messe trade show in Germany, Festo has revealed three new biomimetic creations: a small colony of ants, a gripper modeled on a chameleon's tongue and some fine flyers in the shape of some big blue butterflies.
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Back in 2011, Festo created a natural-flight mimicking bionic seagull with flapping wings dubbed SmartBird. The company is now looking to apply similar principles in order to convert wind power into electricity with its DualWingGenerator system.
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Festo has developed a robotic dragonfly named BionicOpter that's capable of maneuvering in all directions, hovering in mid-air and gliding without beating its wings.
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A team of scientists is developing a robotic cow-nosed ray, modeled after the actual animal.
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