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A highly dynamic flexible tripod

For the BionicANTs, Festo has not only taken the delicate anatomy of the natural ant as a role model. For the first time, the cooperative behaviour of the creatures is also transferred to the world of technology using complex control algorithms.

Free-moving, intuitive to operate and predestined for direct human-robot collaboration; the pneumatic lightweight robot BionicCobot.

The marine planarian, cuttlefish and Nile perch have one thing in common: in order to propel themselves, they use their fins to generate a continuous wave, which advances along their entire length. With this so-called undulating fin movement, the BionicFinWave also manoeuvres through a pipe system made of acrylic glass. At the same time the autonomous underwater robot is able to communicate with the outside world wirelessly and transmit data – such as the recorded sensor values for temperature and pressure – to a tablet.

Flying fox as inspiration: thanks to its intelligent kinematics, the BionicFlyingFox is as agile and manoeuvrable in flight as its natural role model.

With the BionicKangaroo, Festo has technologically reproduced the unique way a kangaroo moves. Like its natural model, it can recover the energy when jumping, store it and efficiently use it for the next jump.

The BionicMobileAssistant moves autonomously in space and can independently recognise objects, grasp them adaptively and work on them together with humans. The processing of the acquired information is performed by a neural network that has been trained in advance using data augmentation.

Sensitive and gentle or powerful and dynamic – the BionicMotionRobot’s movements are inspired by an elephant’s trunk and an octopus’s tentacles. The pneumatic lightweight robot features 12 degrees of freedom and, with a payload of three kilograms, can carry approximately its own weight.

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.

Whether free and flexible movements or defined sequences, thanks to its modular design, the pneumatic lightweight robot can be used for numerous applications. In combination with various adaptive grippers, it can pick up and handle a wide variety of objects and shapes. At the same time, it is completely compliant and poses no danger to the user even in the event of a collision.

Whether grasping, holding or turning, touching, typing or pressing – in everyday life, we use our hands as a matter of course for the most diverse tasks. The human hand is a true miracle tool of nature. What could be more logical than equipping robots in collaborative working spaces with a gripper that is modelled on this natural model and can learn through artificial intelligence to solve a wide variety of gripping and turning tasks?

They are agile, nimble and can even fly loops and tight turns: the BionicSwifts. The five artificial swallows can move in a coordinated and autonomous manner in a defined airspace by interacting with a radio-based indoor GPS.

Inspired by the flic-flac spider, its natural role model, the BionicWheelBot can both walk and roll.

A pneumatic robot arm, artificial intelligence and intuitive operating concepts enable safe and efficient human–robot collaboration for production in batch size 1.

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themselves to support and apply the basic principles in the areas of human rights and working conditions, quality

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New operational concepts for human-machine interaction

GogniGame is a reinterpretation of a table tennis simulation game,

which was launched on the market in the 1970s. As in table tennis, the players used a joystick in order to move a bar up and down the screen to hit a ball back to their opponent. If a player did not

manage to hit the ball, his opponent was awarded a point.

Festo standard 940106 defines specifications for banned ingredients used in materials, as well as ingredients which are subject to mandatory declaration.