(Source: popsci.com)
Festo is building a mechanical menagerie. The German industrial design firm specializes in bio-inspired robots, which may find a use in future factories, like these exoskeletal gloves or this elephant-inspired robotic arm. Others are more whimsical, like this flying, floating, jellyfish-inspired robot that Festo held a contest to find practical uses for. And sometimes they’re both practical and whimsical, like these hand-sized swarming cyber-ant-bots that could someday clean factory floors.
Festo’s latest is a gorgeous flock of butterfly-like robots. The ten butterflybots fly not on their own but as part of a system built into the room, with ten cameras watching the robots and feeding their location data back into a central computer that coordinates their movements. It’s a sterile sort of beauty, like the future’s version of a colorful and inoffensive sculpture in the lobby of a bank’s corporate headquarters.
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