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 ...

The BionicSoftHand is pneumatically operated, so that it can interact safely and directly with people. Combined with the BionicSoftArm, a pneumatic lightweight robot, the Future Concepts are suitable ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Whether it’s grabbing, holding or turning, touching, typing or pressing — in everyday life, we use our hands as a matter of course for the most diverse tasks. In that regard, the human hand, with its ...

⚠️ If you open the case of the BionicSoftHand there is the possibility that you get in touch with the 300V piezo electronics! Avoid touching anything inside the case! ⚠️ The BionicSoftHand 2.0 works ...

⚠️ If you open the case of the BionicSoftHand there is the possibility that you get in touch with the 300V piezo electronics! Avoid touching anything inside the case! ⚠️ The BionicSoftHand 2.0 works ...

The BionicMobileAssistant is a prototype of a robot system that moves independently in three dimensions and can identify objects, grip adaptively and work together with humans. July 3, 2020 – Festo’s ...