Festo, a global supplier of automation equipment, has unveiled three new lightweight robotic concepts which take inspiration from elephants, octopuses and the human arm.
The movements of the BionicCobot can be finely regulated to be either powerful and dynamic, or delicate and yielding – image courtesy of Festo. Festo’s ‘BionicMotionRobot has been inspired by the way elephant trunks or octopus tentacles move, with the way they wrap around objects cited as the inspiration behind the…
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