The Festo Bionic Dragonfly and Swift Soar at RoboBoston on Saturday, October 1
These Festo bionic robots appear as part of the 5th Annual Robot Block Party hosted by MassRobotics on Seaport Common.
ISLANDIA, NY, September 28, 2022 — Festo brings the company's flying robotic dragonfly and swift to Boston on Saturday, October 1, to celebrate RoboBoston - the MassRobotics sponsored 5th annual Robot Block Party. The public is invited to visit RoboBoston from 11 am to 4 pm at Seaport Common. Admission is free. More than 40 companies and universities will showcase their latest robotic technology at this family-oriented event.
Fashioned after the fast flying swift family of birds, the agile, maneuverable Festo BionicSwifts can fly loops and steep turns. The individual segments of the artificial feathers fan out during the wing upstroke, allowing air to flow through the wing. This means the birds need less power to propel the wing upwards. The segments then close during the downstroke so that the flying robots can fly more powerfully. By closely replicating the wings of an actual bird, the BionicSwifts feature a flight profile far superior to previous flapping wing drives.
The flights of the BionicOpter and BionicSwift are thrilling and not to be missed. Festo has been working intensively on bionics - the transfer of natural mechanisms and principles of action to technology - since the 1990s. The BionicOpter and BionicSwift are two of dozens of bionic robots developed by Festo. For more information visit www.festo.com/bionic.
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