www.festo.com - The Bionic Handling Assistant is a light, free-moving "third hand" system. Thanks to its structural compliance, direct contact between humans and machines humans...
Inspired by the elephant's trunk -- a high-tech helper for industry and the home: Team from Festo and Fraunhofer IPA nominated for "Deutscher Zukunftspreis 2010"...
This video first illustrates basic properties and the actuation of Festo's award winning platform 'Bionic Handling Assistant' (BHA). The BHA is a lightweight, compliant robot...
Flexible movement and precise gripping: at first glance, the Bionic Handling Assistant appears to be a readily yielding gripping arm whose structure and overall operation...
From Festo - the people who designed The SmartBirt, here is their 'Bionic Handling Assistant'. Based on an elephant's trunk, designed to be both agile...
This video shows autonomous learning of inverse kinematics on the Bionic Handling Assistant (BHA). We use a method called 'Goal Babbling', which is inspired by...