Digitalisation and artificial intelligence (AI) are mega trends that are opening up potential savings in process automation at every phase of a plant's lifecycle. Festo already offers a digital field device, the VTEM Motion Terminal, and Festo Dashboards are available that visualise plant conditions, indicating that AI is becoming a reality in process automation.
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Mobile robot system meets BionicSoftHand 2.0
Industrial change demands a new kind of interaction between people, machines and data. In the future, operators and robots will work ever more closely together. This is why Festo has been working intensively on systems which, for example, can relieve people of monotonous or hazardous activities while at the same time posing no risk.
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Bionic Flower: a bionically inspired robot flower
The Bionic Flower is a construction kit inspired by the plant world. Festo Didactic developed the Bionic Flower following the models of mimosa plants and water lilies in cooperation with SkySpirit.
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Mini factories in containers help reduce face mask shortages
Protective masks have been in short supply in these times of coronavirus. An innovative containerised production facility that enables businesses and healthcare organisations to produce their own masks to order could solve the problem.
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BionicMobileAssistant as an autonomous helper
The mobile robot system can recognise objects, grasp them adaptively and work together with humans.
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Artificial feathers give flight to robotic birds
They are agile, nimble and can even fly loops and tight turns. The five BionicSwifts can move in a coordinated and autonomous manner in a defined airspace by interacting with a radio-based indoor GPS.
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Swift lessons in lightweight design: the new bionic concept from Festo
What can nature teach us about lightweight structures, adaptive control and collaborative working?
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Making digitalisation and Industry 4.0 a physical reality
Making the virtual world a reality; Festo has developed the Productivity Master, a machine to demonstrate the benefits of digitalisation in manufacturing.
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