Festo, the automation company that designed the bionic penguin and its robotic stablemates – AirRay, AquaRay, AirJelly and AquaJelly – has found another natural model in its latest application of ...

The folks at Festo have already proven themselves to be more than adept some intoxicating, slightly unnerving feats of robotics, but they look to have really outdone themselves with their latest group ...

Smart engineers copy ideas. Great engineers copy from nature. Festo's Bionic Handling Assistant is a robot arm modeled on an elephant's trunk, and it has all the supple flexibility of the original.

Robots are ripping off nature! ...Good idea. Festo, a multinational robotics firm based in Germany, has made some of the most amazing looking and fun biologically inspired robots out there. We've ...