In everyday factory operations, typical activities such as gripping, moving and positioning goods as well as controlling and regulating processes are carried out by automation technology. Nature finds simple and energy-efficient solutions for all these tasks as a matter of course. So what could be more logical than to examine these natural phenomena and learn from them? That is why in 2006we set up an international research network with well-known universities, institutes, development companies and private inventors: the Bionic Learning Network. Find out more about the network and click your way through our future concepts of recent years.