German electrical automation company Festo has good form for pushing the envelope in robot development, previously showing off bio-inspired bot versions of ants, a kangaroo, flying penguins and more.

Robotic technology had come a long way in the past couple of decades, with more intelligent machines capable of superhuman feats that were once thought impossible. Robots are great at doing things ...

Robotic ants the size of a human hand that work together could be the future of factory production systems. The developers, German technology firm Festo, say it's not just the unusual anatomy of ...

If you were using a robotic hand to manipulate delicate objects, you'd probably prefer that hand to be soft and gentle instead of hard and bony – plus it would help if the thing could teach itself how ...

Developing a bioreactor that enables the efficient photosynthesis of algae on a large scale is no easy task. In this video, Dr. Nina Gaißert from the Festo Bionic Learning Network describes their ...

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 ...

Though it looks more like Dr. Octopus' mechanical tentacles from "Spiderman," a flexible, robotic arm recently developed by German automation company Festo was actually fashioned after an elephant's ...

Ants are nature's very own army: goal-driven, indefatigable and capable of great victories in the face of adversity. Now, a German engineering company is looking to harness the power of these insects ...

A four-winged robotic “dragonfly” with Long Island connections has landed — in the pages of Guinness World Records 2020. The BionicOpter, created by Festo AG, a global company with operations in ...