Commentary: The Festo Bionic WheelBot, set to crawl into the Hannover Messe industrial-technology fair, is quite an invention, but not one for faint hearts. Just when you think you can outrun this ...

An automation company in Germany called Festo has been creating a series of rather unusual bionic insects and animals over the past few years. We don’t know if they’re useful yet, but they’re ...

This week’s video comes from Festo, which has taken inspiration from the Saharan flic-flac spider to develop the BionicWheelBot. Flic-flacs have the ability to propel themselves with somersaults and ...