[HN Gopher] Floating manta ray with beating wing drive
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Floating manta ray with beating wing drive
Author : thunderbong
Score : 76 points
Date : 2023-02-07 07:09 UTC (15 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (www.festo.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.festo.com)
| amelius wrote:
| From watching the video, I wonder: do the wings perform actual
| work, or is the movement controlled in some other way?
| aaron695 wrote:
| This is about (2007)
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| Cool performance by them -
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTIqV1AloOI
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| Wish hobbyist would do more of this stuff. It's cool art.
| martyvis wrote:
| Festo have a long history making technical things fun. As a young
| teenager some 45 years or so ago, I used to go every year with my
| toolmaker Dad to the engineering expo in Sydney. I always recall
| Festo putting various demonstrations of their pneumatic and
| automation components doing fun things.
| rob74 wrote:
| Actually, they have one of these bionic "showcase projects" every
| year (really good PR for an otherwise largely unknow company if
| you ask me): https://www.festo.com/us/en/e/about-festo/research-
| and-devel...
| smusamashah wrote:
| Their products are being used by military for spying. Few years
| ago, their bird was crashed (or was shot down) in Pakistan.
| https://www.wired.com/2011/08/weird-birdlike-mystery-drone-c...
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| EDIT: just realized from pictures that even though it looks
| very similar, they don't look the same. But still it can be a
| different version from the same company.
| cjbgkagh wrote:
| The drone in Pakistan was a bird shaped airplane with a prop.
| An ornithopter is a wildly different machine.
| qikInNdOutReply wrote:
| Fest is a german company, they sell mostly valves and
| pneumatic automation solutions to german machine building
| companys. The bionic creatures are a nice gimick, but they
| are not in any form or shape a finnished product.
| unwind wrote:
| Very cool, I love how life-like and kind of soothing the motion
| is. And how it's able to flip and fly on its back, really neat!
|
| Also: I just had to look this up since it's always (?) been
| bugging me: Festo (the company in the OP) founded Festool (the
| power tool manufacturer known for high quality, systainers, and
| Apple-esque pricing) [2]. The logos are just soooo similar. Phew,
| that was calming.
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| [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Festo
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| [2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Festool
| akiselev wrote:
| Can't wait until Dewalt or Makita make a flying manta ray we
| can actually afford.
| alangibson wrote:
| And here I thought Festo only made expensive track saws...
| [deleted]
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| etrautmann wrote:
| Is festool the same company?
| unwind wrote:
| No, but Festool was spun out of/founded by Festo.
| progre wrote:
| This thing is featured in the book Zero History by William Gibson
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| https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero_History
| RF_Savage wrote:
| Festo keeps on impressing with their tech demos. Not only
| interesting tech, but also good presentation.
| tmikaeld wrote:
| What is the practical application of such tech?
| johndunne wrote:
| Pinata 2.0
| ufo wrote:
| Tech demo for a robotics company.
| dragonsky wrote:
| Keeping your technician's excited about working for your
| company.
| abudabi123 wrote:
| Giant solar powered robo-sunfish for corraling schools of fish
| in aquaculture is a possibility. Got to move fast and be carbon
| neutral environment friendly.
| nstart wrote:
| Oh my goodness. I finally know who was behind the floating robot
| at the Dubai museum of the future! Had a chance to visit it last
| year and their flying robot was the best part of the whole
| experience :D . Thanks for sharing this. Amazing to see all their
| other robots at work on YouTube.
| MichaelZuo wrote:
| Very cool! Does anyone know if there have been similar 'wing
| drive' ideas in the past?
| alexpotato wrote:
| I always wonder what it's like to be working as a non-engineering
| person at Festo given that:
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| - they make super cool stuff
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| - they seem to test anything flying in their indoor lobby
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| - it seems a lot of their offices have windows pointing toward
| the lobby
|
| "Oh, look! Today it's a giant floating manta ray!"
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