Festo's Extraordinary Robots That Mimic Biology II: Bionic Learning Network

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Nature is our best engineer, and the finest robots are the ones that mimic it. Festo, a multinational robotics firm based in Germany, has made some of the most amazing biologically inspired robots out there. In one of our previous posts, "Festo's Extraordinary Robots That Mimic Biology I", you have seen air-penguins and mechanical elephant-arms but these are just few of Festo creations. In these videos, the air-ray, the bionic air-fish, the aqua-jelly, and more are shown. Festo is one of the world leaders in automation, with millions of parts installed in factories all over the globe. Their animal inspired robots are created by the efforts of their Bionic Learning Network. This collection of research groups from academia and industry is part advanced research initiative, part education organization.

Festo is a German industrial control and automation company based in Esslingen,Germany. Festo is an engineering driven company that sells pneumatic and electric actuators primarily to the automation industry.
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[DragonfallCIA]

The fluidic muscle needs to make its way to prosthetic limbs ASAP.

[cbrav0]

@crimsond007 More Terminator than Blade Runner to me. Artificial non-mechanical animals have yet to come.

[crimsond007]

Doesn't this remind anyone of bladerunner?

[killaconquerguy]

reminds me of deus ex...

[SALESPRODUCTIONS]

This company and all like it - are why a brilliant guy named Ted Kaczynski moved to the woods - made bombs and wrote long diatribes regarding technology.

It is also the basis of several highly successful screenplays / movies with the name "terminator" in the title.

I hope I am dead before the machines reach self awareness and try to exterminate our highly flawed species.

[Utreon]

@defuntoba imagine your elbow not as a ball, but a disc. This disc is placed in such a directions, that when you represent your stretched arm as an arrow, it will pass through the centre of the disc at an angle of 90 degrees.

this disc is connected to the shoulder by 3 or more "muscles", that shorten and elongate disproportionately. This way you can control the angle at which the disc is as well as its rotation.

This same system can be applied to the elbow and the wrist, et voila.

[gizmo664100]

why havent they taken over the woorld yet?

[specularlobster]

amazing its wondrful as the machine mimic the animals!

[LucasCamargosRamos]

Amazing!

[defuntoba]

How does the arm at 4:12 pronate and supinate? I'm trying to design a bionical arm for a character I'm drawing. I really wanna make the elbow something more intricate than a ball-joint, but it's surprisingly complicated to do, since my design is based on pistons... Any suggestions?