Festo BionicBee

The BionicBee is small, ultra-light and can fly autonomously in a swarm thanks to an indoor localisation system with ultra-wideband technology.

[MapedMod]

Wait... Did they just delete the previous upload of this video because of the comments that were pointing out that all they have showed are blurred renders, multiple cuts that are supposed to mislead the viewer, the movement of the bees is erratic and there is no real demo of the flight that would be longer than 1 second?

[daycred]

You know what separates Festo's from Boston dynamics' videos? The fact that Boston Dynamics makes videos about cool tech without polishing their own musket, if you get what I mean.

[neverevenwaso]

Didn't we have a whole 90 minute episode of Black Mirror explaining precisely why this is a bad idea💀

[stavkous]

*"According to all known laws of aviation, there is no way a bee should be able to fly. Its wings are too small to get its fat little body off the ground. The bee, of course, flies anyway, because bees don't care what humans think is impossible."*
-The Bee Movie

[RK-zmxy]

Belive me, the BionicBee can fly. I have seen a swarm of 5 bees at the Hannover Industrial trade in Germany on FESTO booth. Impressive!

[ericschleppenbach]

Festo: Nature always works efficiently...
Pandas: Hold my bamboo... actually, give it back because I need to eat virtually nonstop to get just enough nutrients to survive.

[Rejinx]

I notice the actual flight shown are mostly in slowmo and are only for a few seconds. I am guessing the battery must be real small to be light enough and the control must be real rough.

[robertgeiss]

For all of you wondering if this thing really flies that well, YES, I saw it fly through the hall for several minutes at the trade fair in Hanover last week.

[teachingthecode]

I'm glad to see Festo finally making some interesting robotics beyond manufacturing again. Festo was way ahead of Boston Dynamics back in the day.

[SwartieLoveJoy]

Model the bee wing exactly, no need to reinvent the wheel, the real bee is perfect. What makes the bee wing a better design than your robot bee wing, is that it gets a better figure eight by having a thicker, tapering spline on top of the wing that provides inertial weight and rigidity, while the rest of the wrong is super flexible like fabric, more rounded with more surface area and swings into more of an air scoop as the wing flexes back and forth, pushing MORE air down than your rigid wing design. Make the wing super thin and lightweight with branching veins for strength. And make the abdomen oblate spheroid super thin shell, like the real bee, to house more LiPo battery near the center of gravity.

[jonathanberry]

I love this. Festo is my new favourite business. This takes some skill, wisdom and very smart brains.

[B_MoreJ]

I'm getting them Black mirror vibes. But this is cool AF.

[roshansiraj]

Marvellous creation.

Once again Festo has proved that we can achieve anything from nature. 🎉

[zigma_visual]

I'm so enthralled by this! This has applications in electric vertical and take-off and landing vehicles. Propellers are way too inefficient. This is inspiring!

[a_bar]

Inspiration makes a difference only to the minds that look and understand, but the rest is of no use to them! This is what these researchers excelled at

[arcanjosousa]

Awesome! Appreciate all your videos, I grow up learning with education Festo pneumatic and hydraulic, thanks for all!❤

[devrim-oguz]

I love how Festo keeps spawning robotic bugs and animals 😄

[KevinHarperDArtist]

You know, deleting this video and re-uploading it does not add more footage of the bee or removes all the silly build-up and overly dramatic VO. The comments pointing out how silly this video is just get worse when you delete it and upload it again. You should have deleted the last video, trim out 2:30 to 2:50 and we would have all given you a bit thumbs up for the upload. Don't let Chat GPT write your scripts for you.

[michaelkidd]

What a nice fluffy turd this video is. 👍 General consumers must love it😂

[allstreamedupvi]

So, once all the bees are killed out from pesticides and EMF, we can just use these, right?