Festo at the Hannover Messe 2017
New 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.
Festo will be using three projects in Hanover to show what safe and direct human-robot collaboration could look like in the future. The concepts were developed in the Bionic Learning Network, which Festo set up more than ten years ago and which is closely interlinked with the innovation processes within the company. In cooperation with students, renowned universities, institutes and development companies, the Esslingen-based company supports projects, test and technology carriers. The aim is to use bionics to identify new technologies and implement them in industrial automation.
Festo's new ideas for lightweight robotics are still concepts for the future. However, according to Dr. Elias Knubben , Head of the Corporate Bionic Projects department, the Esslingen-based company is planning to enter pilot projects at a very early stage and ultimately develop them into series products at some point.
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