Limited installation space and difficult ambient conditions require thinking outside the box during the design process. That's why we are looking into new technologies so that we can continue to be the perfect motion partner for our customers in the future. New materials together with innovative approaches can create solutions for both well-established and new movement tasks.
With its range of Controlled Pneumatics products, Festo has made a technological leap forward and opened up new perspectives for pneumatics with piezo technology. But we are already looking even further into the future and testing different concepts to reduce our dependency on material availability, using recyclable materials in line with the circular economy. That's why we are researching shape memory alloys, electroactive polymers (EAP) and HASEL as innovative actuators.
The four innovative actuator technologies are integrated in the Future Motion module of the Incredible Machine. The Incredible Machine is the anniversary exhibit for 100 years of Festo. It works on the principle of a Rube Goldberg machine, in which one movement triggers the next. The Incredible Machine demonstrates the history of automation technology from the past to the present and reflects our wide range of competencies and our comprehensive expertise.