Festo

Festo is a German multinational industrial control and automation company based in Esslingen am Neckar, Germany.[1] Festo produces and sells pneumatic and electrical control and drive technology for factory or process automation. Festo Didactic also offers industrial education and consultancy services and is one of the sponsors and partners of the WorldSkills Mechatronics Competitions. Sales subsidiaries, distribution centers and factories are located in 61 countries worldwide. The company was named after its founders Albert Fezer and Gottlieb Stoll.

This article is about the German company. For other uses, see Festo (disambiguation).
For the landmark patent-law case, see Festo Corp. v. Shoketsu Kinzoku Kogyo Kabushiki Co.
Festo AG & Co. KG
TypeKommanditgesellschaft
IndustryAutomation
FoundedEsslingen am Neckar, Weimar Republic (1925 (1925))
FounderGottlieb Stoll
Headquarters
Esslingen am Neckar
,
Germany
Number of locations
Sankt Ingbert
Key people
Oliver Jung (CEO)
Revenue€3,1 billion (2018)
Number of employees
20,100 (2018)
Websitewww.festo.com/group

Animal robots

Festo is known for making moving robots that move like animals, such as the sea gull like SmartBird, jellyfish, butterflies and kangaroos. [2] In 2018 they also added a flying fox and a rolling spider to the list. [3] Festo calls their Bionic Flying Fox an “ultra-lightweight flying object with intelligent kinematics.”

See also

References
  1. Company Profile, Goliath
  2. "Festo's Fantastical Flying Robots". IEEE Spectrum: Technology, Engineering, and Science News.
  3. "Festo's New Bionic Robots Include Rolling Spider, Flying Fox". IEEE Spectrum: Technology, Engineering, and Science News. Retrieved 2018-04-18.
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