For billions of years, nature has successfully created natural, adaptive strategies for survival. The organisms and ecosystems that surround us face many of the same challenges that we do. Bionics is all about learning from nature and applying this knowledge to technical challenges. Engineers do this by studying many natural role models and using their examples to develop optimum solutions and technologies that provide very simple answers to complex problems. Festo has been developing innovations inspired by bionics for many years in the Bionic Learning Network and works to find answers to current technical challenges for industrial applications. These solutions offer inspiration and are a great way to learn and apply the acquired knowledge to automation technology.