Festo is a company that makes some strange robots that it has been kicking out for years. Several years back it unveiled a robotic BionicKangaroo that uses a pneumatic system to operate. The company ...

In a split second before you reach to pick up an object, your brain pre-calculates all the movements needed to safely reach and grasp it securely. It’s a subconscious approach that’s the result of ...

If you were using a robotic hand to manipulate delicate objects, you'd probably prefer that hand to be soft and gentle instead of hard and bony – plus it would help if the thing could teach itself how ...

The BionicSoftHand, developed by privately-owned German industrial control and automation company Festo, has pneumatic digits that allow gripping and manipulation of objects in ways that imitate a ...

The Festo BionicSoftHand and the 12-sided cube used in training its motion capabilities. As the division between manual production work performed by humans and automated work handled by robots and ...

Festo revealed its BionicSoftHand, a soft-to-the-touch robot hand that learns from virtual trial and error without actually executing any mistakes. On Thursday ...

A newly invented robot hand can teach itself to manipulate objects just like a real human hand through trial and error. Present-day robots can impressively mimic ...

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 more.