About a year ago, Festo, a company whose nature-inspired robots are as impressive as Boston Dynamics’ creations, blew our minds with a robotic flying bird that used feather wings to perform agile ...

At the TedGlobal2011 conference held earlier this month in Edinburgh, Markus Fischer of German engineering firm Festo put on a remarkable demonstration of a robot bird that actually flies by mimicing ...

You could be excused for thinking that German robotics company Festo does nothing but put together fabulous prototype robots built to resemble kangaroos, jellyfish, and other living things. They do in ...