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 ...

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 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 ...