Articles tagged with: ‘Festo‘
Gadgets »
Festo iFab gets 3D-printing a step closer to your home
In the fictional Star Trek universe, a replicator is a machine capable of creating (and recycling) objects. 3D-printers today serve for creating rapid prototypes but their usage is becoming more and more diverse because of the growing variety of the materials used for production. Hence, there is a vast variety… »
Robotics »
Modular robots – Festo Molecubes
Modularization is a basic principle of living nature: organisms consist of molecules and cells that use genetic programming in order to group together to form organs. Cell division and modularization are the two mutually opposed aspects of reproduction in living systems. Researchers around the world are trying to make a… »
Bionics, Robotics »
AirPenguin – flying robot penguins, what’s next?
At German company Festo they keep creating bionic marine animals which float in air. Penguins are fascinating creatures which have lost their ability to fly in the course of their genetic development as marine birds. The engineers have created an artificial penguin and taught it “autonomous flight in the… »
Bionics, Robotics »
Festo AquaPenguin inovates autonomous underwater vehicles
Besides being cute, penguins are amazingly good swimmers. In their search for food, penguins often travel more than a hundred kilometers per day; they are able to dive in depths up to 700 meters. They are fast n the water, have a great deal of endurance and are astoundingly agile… »