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You’ll Soon Be Able to Buy and Build Festo’s Incredibly Agile Wing-Flapping Robotic Bird
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 airborne manoeuvres. It was a prototype back then, but later this year, the company will start selling a kit that allows anyone to…
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The Hypnotic Wavy Fins On This Swimming Alien-Like Robot Make It Agile As Hell
Replicating the complicated muscle structure that allows fish to wiggle their bodies and dart through the water is no easy feat. But not every underwater creature moves that way. Cuttlefish instead use long fins that undulate in waves to propel themselves, which is an approach that robotics maker Festo found relatively easy to replicate.
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A Robot That Spins 3D Webs Is Even Creepier Than A Spider
The one redeeming feature of a spider is that the webs they create are usually too small, or too weak, to entrap a human. But Festo continues to corner the market on unsettling and slightly creepy robots with a machine that can create giant webs and even 3D cocoons that could easily hold a human…
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This Robot Arm’s Water Balloon Gripper Is Inspired By A Gecko’s Tongue
Five fingers at the end of an arm has turned out to be a fantastic tool for humans, but coordinating so many digits is a lot to ask of a robot. So inspired by the stretchy tongue on a gecko, engineers at Festo have come with a bulbous-looking water-filled gripper that’s just as adept at…