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With the BionicOpter, Festo has technically mastered the highly complex flight characteristics of the dragonfly. Just like its model in nature, this ultralight flying object can fly in all directions, hover in mid-air and glide without beating its wings.

... a leading global provider of automation technology and of basic and further training for industry. Festo is an independent, family-owned business and has become a global market leader in factory and process automation over the past 50 years thanks to innovation and problem-solving expertise in the fields of pneumatics and electric drive technology.

Welcome at Festo...

... a leading global provider of automation technology and of basic and further training for industry. Festo is an independent, family-owned business and has become a global market leader in factory and process automation over the past 50 years thanks to innovation and problem-solving expertise in the fields of pneumatics and electric drive technology.

... with a leading global provider of automation technology and of basic and further training for industry. Festo is an independent, family-owned business and has become a global market leader in factory and process automation over the past 50 years thanks to innovation and problem-solving expertise in the fields of pneumatics and electric drive technology.

Festo in brief

Gripping, moving, controlling and measuring – nature performs all of these tasks instinctively, easily and efficiently. What could be more logical than to examine these natural phenomena and learn from them? That is why Festo set up the Bionic Learning Network, a research network linking Festo to well-known universities, institutes, development companies and private inventors.

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Adresses worldwide

Superconductivity (SC) is one of the most fascinating and at the

same time most important topics of today’s physics and technology

research. At the physics level it is a “macroscopic quantum

phenomenon“, where quantum effects on the scale of the

distances between atoms conspire to dramatic effects. The most

extraordinary one is a complete vanishing of the resistivity, i.e. a

DC current flows without any loss in a “macroscopic“ material, for

example a power cable.

With the three exhibits SupraLinearMotion, SupraHandling and SupraPicker, Festo demonstrates the technology's potential for the industrial automation of tomorrow, showcasing contactless, linear movement, positioning in the level plane and handling in an hermetically sealed room.

The pneumatic conveyor belt can transport objects in a targeted manner and sort them at the same time. It consists of numerous bellows modules that deform the surface creating a wave motion that transports the objects in a targeted manner.

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.

Molecubes – learning by experimenting and programming

A mobile learning system with the Handling Assistant

Real-time optical analysis of fluids

A highly dynamic flexible tripod

Prototype or praline – iFab makes it possible