Festo BionicANTs and eMotionButterflies

Source: Festo Bionic's Youtube Channel
03/27/15, 08:48 AM | Additive & 3D Printing, Engineering | Festo

From Festo Bionic:

With the bionic butterflies, for the first time Festo combines the ultralight construction of artificial insects with collision-free flying behaviour in a collective. For coordination purposes, the eMotionButterflies make use of a guidance and monitoring system, which could be used in the networked factory of the future... (additional info)

Like their natural role models, the BionicANTs work together under clear rules. They communicate with each other and coordinate their actions and movements among each other. The artificial ants thus demonstrate how autonomous individual components can solve a complex task together working as an overall networked system... (additional info)

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