However different the flying behaviour of animals in the natural world may be, when transferring it to technology, the major challenges are always the lightweight design and functional integration. With the BionicFlyingFox, whose articulation points of the heavily loaded kinematic system are all on one plane so that the wings can be folded like scissors, Festo has now deciphered all the different types of flying found in the animal world. But nature provides many other unique solutions which will inspire the bionics team to find new technical solutions in the future.