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Bionic solutions for efficient automation of the future Inspired by nature
Maximum performance with minimum energy consumption: Nature shows the way to energy-efficient movement processes in tomorrowws production and provides impulses for astounding new practical applications.Flexibility, lightness in relation to the mass to be displaced and energy efficiency are acquiring increasing significance in automation. With highly diverse examples, nature demonstrates how maximum performance can be achieved with minimum consumption of energy.
Dr. Eberhard Veit, Chairman of the Management Board and Director of Technology and Market Positioning at Festo AG, explains: We are using bionics to sound out new technologies and to offer our customers even more efficient solutions in automation..
Over the past few years, the Festo Bionic Learning Network a cooperation of Festo with renowned universities, institutes and development companies has become established as an integral part of Festoos innovation processes.
The Bionic Learning Network thus reflects Festoos solutions competence for evaluating new approaches in sustainable product development. We intend to be the innovation leader in our sector. To this end, we must repeatedly travel down new, in other words entirely different, paths in order to provide our customers with added value,, says Dr. Veit.
Bionic design principles serve as the basis for the development of new gripper technology for flexible adaptive gripping in the mechanical handling industry.
In biomechatronics, Festo is investigating new approaches in the control and regulation of autonomous bionic systems, all the way up to smart system integration and the application of state-of-the-art communication technologies. Autonomous, versatile, adaptive and self-regulating processes will acquire increasing significance in the future for the automation of production. In this process, the ongoing development of sensor and regulating technologies along the road to decentralised, autonomous, self-controlling and self-organising systems is benefiting from inspiration provided by nature.
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