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Festo Debuts the ExoHand

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German engineering firm Festo has developed a mechanical exo-skeleton hand that can be worn like a glove to increase productivity for factory workers or help in the rehabilitation of stroke patients. The company is well known for its innovative automating technologies and says ExoHand is attracting attention at this year’s Hanover Trade Fair. Worn like a glove, the ExoHand is designed to double the gripping power of the hand that’s wearing it. German automation company Festo says it could make factory work more efficient and help stroke sufferers use their hands again. For visitors to this week’s Hanover Trade Fair, the ExoHand has been a highlight. According to Festo spokesman Heinrich Frontzek, it’s an intriguing example of what future automation will look like.

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Festo’s Industrial Automation Robots: Design Inspired by Nature

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Pablo Picasso once said: “Good artists copy, great artists steal!” Well, if that is true, then, Festo certainly must fit within the group of great-artist engineering companies for they truly know how to steal from nature. Festo’s “Inspired by Nature” series of air and aqua robots look both graceful and surreal while accomplishing such a hard thing — making man-made objects look as if they were made by nature — look so easy. The first 3 videos bellow are from the bionic learning network series of Festo short docs which explains the inspiration behind each design, its development and its industrial application in factory and process automation. The videos go through the features of the fluidic muscle, the aqua and air ray, the air fish, the air and aqua penguin, the bionic tripod, the interactive wall, the elephant trunk, the [...]

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