Every year, engineers from Festo's Bionic Learning Network take a new batch of bio-inspired robots to the Hannover Messe trade fair. Previous highlights have included robotic ants capable of working ...

The octopus is a fascinating creature, capable of performing multiple tasks. It’s prehensile arms have been particularly interesting for robotics and have inspired German automation firm Festo to ...

Hollywood movies have used giant squids and octopi to inspire underwater nightmares for decades. But Festo, a German company that makes industrial machinery, has realized that an octopus’ amazing ...

If you’ve ever experimented with a robot gripper, you’ll know that while it is easy to make an analogue of the human ability to grip between thumb and forefinger, it is extremely difficult to capture ...

A German company called Festo has unveiled a rather bizarre robotic octopus arm, which could work alongside humans in the future. The rest of this article is behind a paywall. Please sign in or ...

German industrial automation company Festo has created a number of animal-inspired robots in the past, such as kangaroos, herring gulls, ants, and a gripper that mimics the tongue of a chameleon. The ...

A German robotics company recently created a machine that uses a mechanical octopus tentacle to complete simple tasks. OctopusGripper, as it’s appropriately named, is capable of picking up, holding, ...

The Festo researchers who built this prototype robotic arm claim that they were inspired by the form and function of an elephant’s trunk. But anyone familiar with Spider-Man’s nemesis, Dr. Otto ...

As a creature with no skeleton that’s composed almost entirely of soft muscle, the octopus is pretty fascinating. It’s extremely agile and can squeeze through the smallest of cracks, turn sharply in ...

Automation specialist Festo has revealed its latest creation, a pneumatic robot that takes cues from the movements of an elephant’s trunk and an octopus’s tentacles. The BionicMotionRobot can travel ...

A reliable place to turn for mechanical inspiration is the animal kingdom. The German automation company Festo just made a robotic arm that takes its cue from an ...

In brief: Manipulating objects is one of the most difficult challenges in the field of robotics, so researchers have built an advanced soft robotic arm that closely resembles the tentacle of an ...