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Editorial
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Panorama
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Festo worldwide
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About this magazine
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Soft Stop
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Photo: © Pablo Bonet, Instituto
de Astrofísica de Canarias (Spain)
In Focus
Spaces
Whether we are indoors
or outdoors, space is all around us. At the
Gran Telescopio Canarias on the island
of La Palma, scientists explore the biggest
space of all: outer space. In this issue,
we explore the concept of space from a
variety of perspectives, including habitats,
manoeuvrability, learning spaces, air and
cleanrooms.
Compass
FreeMotionHandling
Flying and gripping. The free-moving
helium sphere can grip an object and
place it in many different positions.
People can interact safely and
trouble-free with it.
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A good sense of space
is a feature of the autonomously
flying gripping sphere FreeMotionHandling.
2.2016
trends in automation
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Lightweight construction
in 3D
Free-moving, fast and autonomous.
For the 3D Cocooner, the developers
equipped a parallel kinematic system
from the Festo standard product range
with a special nozzle.
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