Festo at the Hannover Messe 2017New bionic approaches for robotics
The engineers from Festo's Bionic Learning Network are presenting new concepts for robotics at the Hannover Messe 2017. Models from nature served as inspiration: the elephant's trunk and octopus tentacles.
... made from a 3D textile knit now enables the BionicMotionRobot to exploit the great force potential of the entire kinematics. This gives the bionic robot arm a load-bearing capacity of just under three kilograms - with roughly the same dead weight. It is operated intuitively via a specially developed graphical user interface: Using a tablet, the user can easily teach and parameterize the actions to be performed. The defined work steps can then be lined up as required in a timeline using drag and drop. The entire motion sequence is virtually mapped and simulated at the same time. The third new project ...