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posted by Fnord666 on Sunday April 01 2018, @09:19PM   Printer-friendly

Submitted via IRC for AndyTheAbsurd

We love Festo because every year they invest an entirely appropriate amount of time and money into bio-inspired robots that are totally cool and very functional but have limited usefulness. More often than not, it seems like Festo is able to take some of what it learns from designing and constructing these things and create practical new revenue-generating products. Which is good for them, and means they'll keep making cool stuff. Over the last few years, we've met ants, butterflies, flying jellyfish and penguins, kangaroos, seagulls, and much more.

Festo has just announced its two newest bionic learning network robots—one is a very convincing flying fox, and the other is a walking, tumbling robot inspired by a Saharan spider.

The rolling spider robot video is very cool, definitely worth watching.

Source: https://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/robotics-hardware/festo-bionic-learning-network-rolling-spider-flying-fox


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 01 2018, @09:43PM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 01 2018, @09:43PM (#661249)

    I'd rather have robot spiders like in Stargate SG-1 go around and eat all the metal and spray acid in everyone's faces, killing them horribly.

    April Foe's

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 01 2018, @09:48PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 01 2018, @09:48PM (#661251)

    I'd rather have clingy robot women that hug you to death like in Stargate Atlantis.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 02 2018, @02:21AM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 02 2018, @02:21AM (#661306)

      The sexual abilities of the T-1000 Terminator robots are unmatched. Lets build those.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 02 2018, @03:09AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 02 2018, @03:09AM (#661316)

        Rebrand it as "metal slime girl" [twimg.com].