The BionicSoftHand should rotate a 12-sided cube so that a previously defined side points upward at the end. The human hand boasts a unique combination of power, dexterity, and fine motor skills. We ...

Festo has been demonstrating their next-generation exoskeleton arm that supports the human hand from the outside to improve its strength and stamina. Watch the video below to see the system in action ...

Smart engineers copy ideas. Great engineers copy from nature. Festo's Bionic Handling Assistant is a robot arm modeled on an elephant's trunk, and it has all the supple flexibility of the original.

A robotic elephant trunk developed by German engineering firm Festo has acquired basic motor skills through the application of new technology. Using a process called goal babbling, software developers ...