Nine years ago, Festo revealed a robotic seagull with wings that could bend and flap like the wings on the real-life terrors of the beach. The robotic bird was able to stay aloft by simply ...

German automation company Festo is at it again. Its latest robots -- an autonomous bionic arm and a flying robot bird -- are here, and they're awesome.

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 ...

About a year ago, Festo, a company whose nature-inspired robots are as impressive as Boston Dynamics’ creations, blew our minds with a robotic flying bird that used feather wings to perform ...

Created by Festo, the BionicSwift is a flying robot that can autonomously move in coordinated groups of five. The robot weighs only 42 grams and can fly uninterrupted for up to seven minutes using ...

German engineering firm Festo has created a robot bird that really flies.

Researchers at Festo have announced the creation of a new bionic project called the "BionicSwift." The robotic bird can fly using artificial feathers. The researchers used radio-based indoor GPS ...

Festo already has a flying bird robot — I wrote about it almost 10 years ago. They even made a flying bat as a follow-up.

We've seen some impressive nature-inspired flying bots from the creative minds at Festo's Bionic Learning Network over the years, but the autonomous BionicBee is not only the smallest so far but ...

The Guinness Book of World Records contains many obscure records, including “Biggest Flying Robotic Insect.” Robotics company Festo, whose U.S. headquarters is in Islandia, took that ...

For example, Festo, a Germany-based multinational industrial control and automation company, has previously created a flock of bionic birds with nature-inspired wings.

A robot with bird-like legs that can walk, hop, leap and jump for take-off into flight has been designed in Switzerland in an engineering breakthrough that could enable aircraft to operate in ...