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Actually, they have one of these bionic "showcase projects" every year (really good PR for an otherwise largely unknow company if you ask me): https://www.festo
by rob74 4y ago
Actually, they have one of these bionic "showcase projects" every year (really good PR for an otherwise largely unknow company if you ask me): https://www.festo.com/us/en/e/about-festo/research-and-development/bionic-learning-network-id_31842/ https://www.festo.com/us/en/e/about-festo/research-and-devel...
- smusamashah 4y agoTheir products are being used by military for spying. Few years ago, their bird was crashed (or was shot down) in Pakistan. https://www.wired.com/2011/08/weird-birdlike-mystery-drone-crashes-in-pakistan/ https://www.wired.com/2011/08/weird-birdlike-mystery-drone-c... EDIT: just realized from pictures that even though it looks very similar, they don't look the same. But still it can be a different version from the same company.
- qikInNdOutReply 4y agoFest is a german company, they sell mostly valves and pneumatic automation solutions to german machine building companys. The bionic creatures are a nice gimick, but they are not in any form or shape a finnished product.
- cjbgkagh 4y agoThe drone in Pakistan was a bird shaped airplane with a prop. An ornithopter is a wildly different machine.