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Robotic Butterfly by Festo

May 20th, 2015 | Robot

The German company, Festo, has a history of making incredible, biomimetic robots in their laboratories. We have featured kangaroos, dragonflies, and jellyfish in the past. They’ve also made Air-Penguins, Air-Ray, robotic birds, and the Airacuda. The butterfly may seem less ambitious than those efforts, but the butterflies can swarm in the air while avoiding collisions.

Each butterfly weighs a little over an ounce and has a wingspan of 20 inches. They consist of nothing more than a couple of motors, batteries, infrared markers, and soft, elastic wings.

The robots were not developed to sell but represent continued research efforts towards making ultralight, networked robotics systems. I think the company should focus on these creations and move them to market. I want one!

You can read more about the specs here.

-RSB

Traffic Lights by Lucas Zimmermann

December 23rd, 2013 | Space

“Traffic Lights” is a mysterious new photography series from Lucas Zimmermann. The images are simple in composition, yet the foggy scenes deliver a special sense of otherworldly enchantment.
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Lucas snapped the 5-20 second exposures at an intersection near Weimar, Germany. The red and yellow lights are natural, but the blue light was created during post-production editing of the green light.
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Very cool…

You can find more from Lucas on his Behance page.

-RSB

The Festo Robotic Dragonfly

April 19th, 2013 | Robot

Robotic Dragonfly:

One of the very first posts I ever made on RobotSpaceBrain was about Festo’s robotic flying animals (jelly fish, penguins, birds). Their new toy, called the BioniCopter, is modeled after the complex flight pattern of a Dragonfly.
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The robot only weighs about 175 g and maneuvers with incredible grace.
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It’s supposedly very easy to control as well, using a complex flapping motion handled by the software and electronics, allowing the pilot to use a simple smartphone app to steer the Robotic Dragonfly around in space.

How It Works:

The machine is run by an ARM microcontroller, which calculates all of the parameters relating to mechanical adjustments based on input from its sensors (accelerometers and such). The microcontroller then translates all that useful input information into control commands for the Servo motors so it can flap its wings appropriately.

Here are a few specifications from the Festo site:

General Thoughts:

Truly amazing products keep coming out of the German Festo Laboratories. I am not sure who is buying them, but of course, there are many potential applications for the high-tech flying robots. I am sure the military is keeping close tabs…
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It would be interesting to see if you could scale this up and make a Giant Robotic Dragonfly…

You can read more at the Festo website.

-RSB

Graphic Design from Maiko Gubler

April 17th, 2013 | Brain, Space

The Swiss-Japanese artist Maiko Gubler belongs to the creative group in Berlin, originally moving to Germany because she was “charmed by the rawness, the undefined space and the inherent history of Berlin in the 90s.” She works in a variety of mediums — illustration, sculpture, 3D modeling, and graphic design — and all of it is well crafted.
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The images above are fantastically crisp, driven by blue skies, clean lines, and bright tile.
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The melting metal reminds me of gallium, which will turn liquid in your hand (at 29.76 °C / 85.57 °F to be exact).

Find more from Maiko here.

-RSB

[via But Does It Float]

Balloon Tank from Hans Hemmert

March 24th, 2013 | Robot

I recently stumbled across this sculpture made back in 2007 by Hans Hemmert, a Berlin-based artist. It is called “German Panther.” In time, the balloons slowly deflated into nothingness, and apparently, local children were allowed to destroy the remnants. I assume this was, in some way, a political statement…

It would have been quite interesting to see the movement of the balloons in person. The tank was originally shown at the Staedtische Galerie in Germany, but unfortunately, this piece will only live on in cyberspace.

Hemmert also made this interesting balloon church, maybe in reference to the fragility of organized religion? Or the absurdity of it?

Find more from Hans Hemmert here.

-RSB

737 Flight Simulation

July 9th, 2012 | Space

Check out this Boeing 737 flight simulator from the simINN Flight Simulation Center in Stuttgart, Germany — designed by Frankfurt-based architect Boris Banozic.

The location has full-size simulators of a boeing 737 and a learjet 45x on site. The cockpits also come with impressive 230-degree projection displays.

The aim of Banozic’s design was to create a dynamic and abstract scenery of an airport runway.

And apparently, you can drink and fly.

I didn’t really expect a fully functional flight simulator to be accompanied by contemporary interior design, but the result is pretty cool. If I ever learn to fly, I’ll be heading to Stuttgart.

-RSB

[via The Cool Hunter]

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