Festo - SmartBird

Why HN readers recommended it

Recommended as a spectacular example of bio-inspired robotics, and a pointer to Festo's other work.

This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.

Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

Festo

Topic

bionic flapping-wing robots

Format

demo

Level

general

HN recommenders in dataset

4

HN mentions in dataset

6

Recommendation years in dataset

2011–2021

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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• If you're interested in this, I highly recommend looking at the stuff that Festo (a german industrial automation company) is doing: [LINK] (This is from 2008). And not necessarily related, but really cool anyway: [VIDEO]

• This is "autonomous" at the windup toy level. Festo, the German robotics company, is way ahead in autonomous soft robots. See their "Air Ray" fly around[1] Each year, Festo makes motion controllers and robots, especially high-precision pneumatic devices. Each year, they build something awesome. They …

• You should definitely watch this: [LINK] and [VIDEO] Also, while birds are really good at using their wings to glide and provide propulsion flapping designs that need to lift much more than their own weight have so far not worked very well. So I don't …