4.8K views · 88 reactions | The BionicSwift is a robot bird made by Germany-based Festo. They also make the BionicMobileAssistant, which can independently recognize objects and work on them with humans. | Digital Trends | Facebook

Festo’s bio-inspired robotics work continues to illustrate how nature’s solutions inform advanced engineering. Festo’s *Bionic Learning Network* develops mechanical animals — termed *Bionics* — that replicate biological systems to explore and solve technical problems across automation and robotics. Key examples include: - **SmartBird**: An ornithopter modeled after a herring gull that can take off, fly, and land autonomously using flapping wings that also twist for lift and propulsion. The desig