Festo's BionicKangaroo from 2014. Festo's bionic robots are the equivalent of concept cars, testbeds for innovation and new ideas that could one day find their way into production vehicles.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. By Amy Pollock Robotic ants the size of a human hand that work together could be the future of factory production systems. The ...

Friedrichshafen, Germany — Are these the insects that spoil Iron Man's picnics? Festo AG & Co. KG used additive manufacturing technology to create robotic ants — the company calls them BionicANTs — ...

The German robotics company, Festo, is up to its impressive tricks again, making robots that are modelled on real-life insects and animals. Festo has quite a penchant for animal-like robots, and its ...

German automation company Festo has been getting inspiration from an unlikely source: the animal kingdom. Since 2006, Festo has been building animal-like robots as part of its "Bionic Learning Network ...

From the organizational strength of the ant colony, to the unseen communication in a swarm of butterflies, nature has always beaten man to it. But now researchers at Festo, a German industrial control ...

A new menagerie of animal-inspired robotics has been unveiled by the researchers at Festo. One flies like a butterfly, another works in groups like ants and the third grips objects like a chameleon's ...

Designing a robot that can convincingly move like a member of the animal kingdom is a much more difficult prospect than merely building something that has the outward appearance of one. Some of the ...