Taking to the skies over Edinburgh’s Holyrood Park, a gossamer-winged mechanical bird (which we wrote about when it debuted, here) is mobbed by flocks of its living brethren. It’s the remarkable and ...

You could be excused for thinking that German robotics company Festo does nothing but put together fabulous prototype robots built to resemble kangaroos, jellyfish, and other living things. They do in ...

Festo claims that SmartBird flies, glides and moves through the air like its counterpart in nature — the herring gull — with no additional drive mechanism. The aim of the SmartBird project was to ...

Another beautiful bit of work from Festo biomimicry is something we are going to see lots of in the future. This has really brightened my Friday up! It looks right it flies right and guess what its ...

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Windmills offer a great way to harness renewable energy, and they’ve been around for almost two centuries – but who says that’s the only way you can catch the wind? Festo, a supplier of automation ...

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