German electrical automation company Festo has good form for pushing the envelope in robot development, previously showing off bio-inspired bot versions of ants, a kangaroo, flying penguins and more.

The geniuses at Festo's Bionic Learning Network are well known for their fascination with robotic animals, and their latest creation is no exception. Dubbed the SmartBird, this autonomous bionic bird ...

Two bionic innovations were, this week, displayed in South Africa for the first time. The Festo SmartBird, which replicated the wing motion of a Herring Gull in a robotic form, and the BionicOpter, a ...

What can happen if you turn the creativity of your engineers loose to solve a complex automation problem? At its 9th International Press Conference held June 16 in Budapest, Hungary, Festo AG ...

April 27, 2009 The latest example of biomimicry in robotics to cross our desk is from German electrical automation company Festo, which has used the shape of the acquatic, flightless bird to construct ...

Researchers at Festo have announced the creation of a new bionic project called the "BionicSwift." The robotic bird can fly using artificial feathers. The researchers used radio-based indoor GPS with ...

About a year ago, Festo, a company whose nature-inspired robots are as impressive as Boston Dynamics’ creations, blew our minds with a robotic flying bird that used feather wings to perform agile ...

One of the recurring themes in Isaac Asimov's short stories about robots is that human beings, for the most part, pretty much hated robots with any level of human intelligence -- which was dubbed the ...

Yesterday, Festo unveiled a bird-inspired wind turbine, but today, the company has unveiled a new robotic creation that’s a little more recognizable. The world may not have a huge need for a bionic ...

It may look like a bird, fly like a bird, but it’s not a bird. It’s a biomimetic robot. Researchers, scientists and the armed forces have recently developed robots that act and look like animals. Some ...