German robotics company Festo’s new robo-spider looks menacing enough when it’s just sitting there. But let it engage its special ability – curling up into a ball and rolling around – and it will look ...

Just when you think you can outrun this creepy little spider bot, it pulls a Transformer, becomes a wheel and rolls swiftly in your direction. Yes, that sounds like bad sci-fi. But this is the Festo ...

Festo's BionicKangaroo from 2014. Festo's bionic robots are the equivalent of concept cars, testbeds for innovation and new ideas that could one day find their way into production vehicles.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. By Amy Pollock Robotic ants the size of a human hand that work together could be the future of factory production systems. The ...

Festo is no stranger to autonomous robot creatures, but their latest initiative, called the Bionic Learning Network, might as well be referred to from here on out as Skynet for the animal kingdom.

We sure love nature-inspired robots a whole lot, and German automation company Festo is one of the most exciting companies working in this space. Its latest creations are two of its greatest yet: A ...

Festo, the same company that brought us the Air Ray robot last year, has developed yet another graceful robot inspired by a creature of the sea. In fact, they have developed two versions, both based ...

Smart engineers copy ideas. Great engineers copy from nature. Festo's Bionic Handling Assistant is a robot arm modeled on an elephant's trunk, and it has all the supple flexibility of the original.