| Date | Title | Description |
| 19.09.2024 | BlackPeak Capital Invests €8M in a a Bulgarian Electronics Manufacturing Firm | Bulgaria ~
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In a nutshell Bulgarian BlackPeak Capital has announced an investment of €8 million in “Security Smart Systems” Ltd., a Bulgarian electronics manufacturing services company. An investment to drive Growth and modernizatio... |
| 18.09.2024 | Festo's Dual Approach: Innovation in Automation and Commitment to Clean Energy | Festo is making waves in two critical arenas: automation technology and sustainability. The company is not just a player in the industrial automation game; it’s also stepping up as a champion for clean energy. This dual approach positions F... |
| 18.09.2024 | Festo Launches a Clean Energy Initiative at Its North American Regional Service Center in Mason, Ohio | Solar panels will be installed on two of the three buildings at the Festo North American Regional Service Center.
Electricity generated by solar panels will add to the local energy pool – enough to power 359 Ohio homes for a year.
MASON, Oh... |
| 17.09.2024 | Festo Introduces an Innovative Stepper Motor for its CMMT-ST Multi-Protocol DC Servo Drive | The CMMT-ST DC servo motor, far left, is much more compact that the larger CMMT-AS AC servo drive, right.
OEMs have a one-stop shop for light duty servo motion from compact multi-protocol drive to choice of actuators.
ISLANDIA, N.Y., Sept. ... |
| 17.07.2024 | Festo Introduces Pre-Configured and Assembled Air Preparation Units that Meet Safe Quality Food Guidelines | Festo pre-configured, assembled, and tested air preparation unit for safe quality air in food and beverage production.
Each unit delivers a final filtration stage of 0.01 micron with filtration efficiency of 99.999%.
ISLANDIA, N.Y., July 17... |
| 22.05.2024 | FREYR Battery Provides Operations Update | FREYR Battery Provides Operations Update
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FREYR has completed its first production trial of unit cells using the full capabilities of the Casting and Unit Cell Assembly at the Customer Qualific... |
| 02.05.2024 | Festo Introduces a New Generation of Electric Actuators for Linear Applications | The reduced profile ELGD is 30% lighter than larger units with similar rigidity and guide load capacity.
An innovative design improves axis performance, and new Festo global manufacturing lines ensure supply.
ISLANDIA, N.Y., May 2, 2024 /PR... |
| 11.04.2024 | Festo's smart proximity switch commissions itself, for time savings that add up | The Festo SDBT-MSX, affixed here to a compact rectangular cylinder, is the world’s first such sensor with auto-teach-in, for simple, fast one-and-done commissioning.
Small but innovative component for machine builders, Pro-Line Automation S... |
| 07.03.2024 | Festo Electric and Pneumatic Intralogistics Solutions Push/Sort, Grip/Pick, and Lift/Convey | The Festo Automation Platform (AP) provides the utmost in topology flexibility. All the distributed and decentralized I/O are under a single IP address.
Festo integrates cobots from different manufacturers in a 7th-axis solution for bin pic... |
| 02.11.2023 | The Festo Power Up Initiative Aims to Transform Food and Beverage Machine Building | The Festo Automation Platform (AP) provides the utmost in topology flexibility. All the distributed and decentralized I/O are under one point of integration and a single IP address.
The Festo product range, productivity tools, and automatio... |
| 13.09.2023 | New Festo Family of Multi-Protocol Servo Drives Provides OEMs with Productivity and Cost Advantages | The Festo CMMT MP family of multi-protocol servo drives are configurable as EtherNet/IP, EtherCAT, PROFINET, and Modbus TCP.
OEMs can reduce inventory, forego supply-chain woes, and work smarter with this family of servo drives.
ISLANDIA, N... |
| 29.03.2023 | Festo Didactic's digital portal makes new, individualized learning experiences possible | Digitalization is changing the way people learn, and not just because in-person learning became so difficult with pandemic lockdowns. Trends such as mobile, micro, adaptive, and virtual reality learning were already beginning to exert an in... |
| 28.03.2023 | Festo Didactic’s digital portal makes new, individualized learning experiences possible | Festo Didactic’s new digital learning portal, Festo LX, offers individualized training approaches that incorporate tools such as virtual reality and augmented reality.
ISLANDIA, N.Y. (PRWEB) March 28, 2023
Digitalization is changing the way... |
| 27.02.2023 | Festo Breaks Price/Performance Barriers with New Multi-Axis Gantry | EXCL gantry top view
ISLANDIA, N.Y. (PRWEB) February 27, 2023
Festo introduces the EXCL, a multi-axis gantry kit that lowers acquisition, engineering, and assembly costs for automated sample handling and liquid dispensing in laboratory devi... |
| 27.02.2023 | Festo Advances High-Throughput Automated Pipetting with Closed-Loop Control | Closed-loop pipette head
ISLANDIA, N.Y. (PRWEB) February 27, 2023
Festo introduces the DHOP closed-loop pipette head for high-speed robotic pipetting applications requiring consistent volumes over a wide range of liquid viscosities. The DHO... |
| 20.01.2023 | Grand Opening: Advanced Manufacturing Training Center at Trenholm State Community College | Advanced Manufacturing Training Center at Trenholm State Community College
EATONTOWN, N.J. (PRWEB) January 20, 2023
Trenholm State Community College, along with partner companies in the Alabama River Region FAME Chapter, and industrial and ... |
| 28.10.2022 | New Festo AI Solution Improves Machine Utilization, Product Quality, and Energy Efficiency | Festo introduces the Festo Automation Experience (AX), a new artificial intelligence (AI) platform for predictive maintenance, predictive quality, and energy optimization. Using advanced analytics, Festo AX maps data to learn a component, m... |
| 25.10.2022 | New Festo AI Solution Improves Machine Utilization, Product Quality, and Energy Efficiency | Festo AX, a new machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) software platform, ensures maximum uptime, product quality, and energy efficiency in a host of applications.
ISLANDIA, N.Y. (PRWEB) October 25, 2022
Festo introduces the Fest... |
| 30.09.2022 | We've got you covered: Festo Didactic and SICK release new curriculum for Robot Safety Awareness | Ted Rozier- Festo Didactic, Director of Engineering and Brian Sellers, SICK, Industry Marketing Manager at IMTS Student Summit presenting the Safety Awareness Training Package
EATONTOWN, N.J. (PRWEB) September 30, 2022
Smart Technology is r... |
| 29.09.2022 | The Festo Bionic Dragonfly and Swift Soar at RoboBoston on Saturday, October 1 | The Festo BionicSwifts are fashioned after the fast flying swift family of birds. The robots are agile, maneuverable, and can fly loops and steep turns.
ISLANDIA, N.Y. (PRWEB) September 29, 2022
Festo brings the company’s flying robotic dra... |
| 15.09.2022 | Festo Revolutionizes Process Valve Positioning with a Stunning New Solution | The CMSH smart positioner with a host of integrated features, including HART communication, offers up to a 30% savings over comparably featured solutions.
ISLANDIA, N.Y. (PRWEB) September 15, 2022
Festo has reimagined pneumatic process valv... |
| 12.09.2022 | IMTS 2022: Student Competition & I4.0 Learning Experience “Industry 4.Core: Embracing the Journey from Mechatronics to Industry 4.0” | Festo Booth at IMTS 2022
CHICAGO (PRWEB) September 12, 2022
Festo Didactic, Siemens and SICK Safety are teaming up at this year’s International Manufacturing Technology Show (IMTS) in Chicago. The trio is building awareness around the excit... |
| 15.06.2022 | PMMI & Festo Didactic Join Forces on Workforce Development | EATONTOWN, N.J. (PRWEB) June 15, 2022
PMMI, The Association for Packaging and Processing Technologies, and Festo Didactic Inc. North America, have joined forces to provide PMMI members and education partners with advanced technical educatio... |
| 07.06.2022 | Festo and PennAir Ink a Distribution Agreement | Vinny Calabrese, Process Automation Business Development, left, introduces Marcus Sweitzer, PennAir Technical Sales Professional, to the range of Festo products in the company’s mobile lab.
ISLANDIA, N.Y. (PRWEB) June 07, 2022
Festo announc... |
| 25.05.2022 | STEM Hub Coming to Patrick & Henry Community College in Martinsville | Dr Hodges and Tony Oran signing MOU
MARTINSVILLE, Va. (PRWEB) May 25, 2022
Patrick & Henry Community College, along with industry partner Festo Didactic, are taking another giant leap forward in their combined efforts to prepare student... |
| 18.05.2022 | Festo Showcases Flexible Automation Solutions at Interphex 2022 | The bus modules (top left) connected to the controller, daisy-chained digital and analog input blocks (center), and valve terminal (lower left) illustrate the CPX-AP-I decentralized I/O topology.
ISLANDIA, N.Y. (PRWEB) May 18, 2022
At Inter... |
| 26.04.2022 | Festo Features Automation Solutions for Brewhouses and Packaging Lines at BrewExpo 2022 | The new KVZB ball-valve configurator organizes the selection of the optimum assembly into a few simple and quick steps.
ISLANDIA, N.Y. (PRWEB) April 26, 2022
Festo highlights industry-leading technology that gives breweries greater flexibil... |
| 26.04.2022 | Festo Helps Customers Harness the Power of Worker Upskilling at the Oracle Industry Lab | Oracle Innovation Lab, Deerfield, IL
CHICAGO, Ill. and MASON, Ohio (PRWEB) April 26, 2022
Oracle and Festo are joining forces to help educators create new opportunities and solve tough challenges at the Oracle Industry Lab. Opened today, th... |
| 09.03.2022 | Warren County and Clermont County Schools Kickoff Manufacturing Pre-Apprenticeship Program | Cristobel Jimenez teaches mechatronics to HS Seniors at the Festo facility.
MASON, Ohio (PRWEB) March 09, 2022
A group of 14 high school seniors in southwestern Ohio have become the first beneficiaries of a workforce development grant to fu... |
| 07.02.2022 | Festo Introduces at SLAS 2022 an Open-Source Gantry Robot for Automated Liquid Handling | Modular three-axes gantry robots can be delivered as ready-to-assemble kits, including cabinet and all necessary supporting components, or as preassembled systems.
ISLANDIA, N.Y. (PRWEB) February 07, 2022
Festo introduces at SLAS 2022 the M... |
| 22.11.2021 | Hartnell and Festo Didactic partner to close the skills gap in Manufacturing & Agriculture | Clint Cowden, Dean of CTE and Workforce Development at Hartnell College, gives a tour of the Festo learning systems in the new Advanced Manufacturing & Agricultural Technology Training lab.
EATONTOWN, N.J. (PRWEB) November 22, 2021
New ... |
| 21.10.2021 | Festo and MassRobotics Select Companies for the Inaugural Healthcare Robotics Startup Catalyst Program | ISLANDIA, N.Y. (PRWEB) October 21, 2021
The first four companies in the inaugural Healthcare Robotics Startup Catalyst program have been selected by Festo and MassRobotics. The Healthcare Robotics Startup Catalyst is a new program for the g... |
| 22.09.2021 | Festo Develops Innovative Solution for Nitrogen Dosing on Filling Lines | Controlling several flow rates with just one piece of hardware is now possible with the Flow control app for the Festo Motion Terminal.
ISLANDIA, N.Y. (PRWEB) September 22, 2021
Festo introduces at Pack Expo, September 27-29, Las Vegas, Boo... |
| 17.08.2021 | Festo Didactic Joins Festo’s Regional Service Center in Mason, Ohio | Festo Regional Service Center
MASON, Ohio (PRWEB) August 17, 2021
Festo Didactic Learning Systems North America announced today plans to relocate its Solution Center production and logistics capabilities from Eatontown, New Jersey to its 47... |
| 02.08.2021 | Meet the BionicOpter, a robotic dragonfly that masters the highly complex flight characteristics of insects | Festo is a German industrial control and automation tech startup based in Esslingen am Neckar, Germany. The company develops and markets pneumatic and electrical automation technology solutions for factories.
Founded 1985 by Albert Fezer a... |
| 07.07.2021 | Better gripping with intelligent picking robots | In the research project FLAIROP, the robots are trained with different articles in separate locations. The weights from all stations are collected and optimized using various criteria.
ISLANDIA, N.Y. (PRWEB) July 07, 2021
Production, wareho... |
| 25.05.2021 | Festo Designs an Application-Specific Pneumatic Cylinder for Cheese Making | The new cheese press cylinder from Festo improves control for greater consistency and quality in the pressing stage of cheese making.
ISLANDIA, N.Y. (PRWEB) May 25, 2021
Festo recently introduced an application-specific pneumatic cylinder f... |
| 14.05.2021 | Festo Adds New Manual and Mechanical Pneumatic Valves to Its Core Product Range | The mechanical VMEF with roller lever attachment
ISLANDIA, N.Y. (PRWEB) May 14, 2021
Festo recently introduced the manually operated VHEF and the mechanically operated VMEF pneumatic valves. These small, durable, and versatile valves are co... |
| 20.04.2021 | Festo Develops Filters to Ensure Clean Compressed Air in Food Zones | The MS filtration series exceeds SQF clean-air codes and is pre-assembled, easy to install, feature rich, and competitively priced.
ISLANDIA, N.Y. (PRWEB) April 20, 2021
Festo introduces the MS series of filtration products – filters that l... |
| 13.04.2021 | Festo Develops a New Compact Cylinder for its Simplified Electric Motion Series of Actuators | The EPCE cylinder provides an economical electric solution for basic end-to-end motion.
ISLANDIA, N.Y. (PRWEB) April 13, 2021
Festo introduces the EPCE compact electric cylinder for fast movement in such applications as sorting, distributio... |
| 30.03.2021 | The Fast Way to a Safe Insulin Pen | Festo automation at Syntegon
ISLANDIA, N.Y. (PRWEB) March 30, 2021
Diabetes is on the rise worldwide with around 10 million people being diagnosed with the disease every year, increasing the demand for insulin pens for self-injection. Synte... |
| 16.03.2021 | Festo Productivity Master Demonstration at Hannover Fair Points the Way to Digitalization | Productivity Master
ISLANDIA, N.Y. (PRWEB) March 16, 2021
The Productivity Master, a modular demonstration system for personalized USB memory sticks from Festo, shows how automation technology will evolve along the value chain when combined... |
| 02.02.2021 | EandM Now Distributes Festo Automation Products Throughout the West Coast | EandM places a high value on customer training which unlocks the potential of today’s automation technology. This class is being held in one of the company’s fully equipped training rooms.
ISLANDIA, N.Y. (PRWEB) February 02, 2021
Festo anno... |
| 25.01.2021 | LOOMIA’s Flexible E-Textile Circuits Bring Innovation To Robotics, Wearable Technology And Automotive Industries | LOOMIA's projects range from robotics to automotive interiors, to industrial wearablesLOOMIA |
| 12.01.2021 | Festo Introduces a Miniature Valve for In-Vitro Diagnostics, Point-of-Care Devices, and Labs on a Chip | The VOVK valve is a miniature all-rounder in diagnostic and point-of-care devices, whether employed as a pilot valve or used to directly control small gas flows.
ISLANDIA, N.Y. (PRWEB) January 12, 2021
Festo introduces the new VOVK valve fo... |
| 17.12.2020 | Festo Introduces New Rotary Gripper for High-Speed Vial and Microplate Handling | The compact rotary gripper module EHMD comes in two versions: fully electric or with a pneumatic gripper.
ISLANDIA, N.Y. (PRWEB) December 17, 2020
Festo introduces the - EHMD compact rotary gripper module for high speed laboratory sample ha... |
| 08.12.2020 | Festo Adds Two New Solutions to Its Compressed Air Energy Saving Platform | Plug-and-play combinations of the D2M, module lower right, with a C2M, upper left, can monitor the energy efficiency of two separate compressed air networks simultaneously.
ISLANDIA, N.Y. (PRWEB) December 08, 2020
Festo has expanded its int... |
| 26.11.2020 | Как думает Уильям Гибсон: семь приёмов мышления «отца киберпанка» | Эта статья — про мышление писателя Уильяма Гибсона, чей способ думать о хаосе современности во многом сформировал не только поколение фантастов, но и нашу культуру. Написана в рамках проекта «Думай как» — исследование способов мышления маст... |
| 02.07.2020 | Festo’s latest biomimetic robots are a flying feathered bird and ball-bottomed helper arm | You could be excused for thinking that German robotics company Festo does nothing but put together fabulous prototype robots built to resemble kangaroos, jellyfish, and other living things. They do in fact actually make real industrial robo... |
| 28.06.2019 | Siemens partners with UK universities to launch Industry 4.0 curriculum | Global technology and industrial manufacturing company Siemens has announced a new Industry 4.0. academic teaching programme in partnership with UK universities.
Called Connected Curriculum, the aim is to bring advanced industrial tools, da... |
| 21.03.2019 | Industry 4.0 Shifts from Buzzword to Reality, Says Hampleton Partners’ M&A Report | Analysis of Industry 4.0 in the German-speaking region identifies AI, automotive, robotics, medical technology, cleantech and smart building technologies as key drivers of M&A
Evidence of increasing interest and investment from China bu... |
| 28.03.2018 | Festo’s latest bio-inspired creations are a robo-bat and rolling robo-spider | Festo’s flashy biomimetic robots are more or less glorified tech demos, but that doesn’t mean they aren’t cool. The engineering is still something to behold, although these robot critters likely won’t be doing any serious work. Its latest u... |
| 29.03.2017 | This Robotic Octopus Tentacle Is Not Creepy At All, Nope | German industrial automation company Festo adds another creature to its freaky robotic zoo: The OctopusGripper.
Octopus tentacles are what's called a "muscular hydrostat." Your tongue is one of these, as are elephant trunks and ma... |
| 27.03.2015 | A Drone Butterfly Army Takes Flight | A swarm of remote-controlled butterflies could very well be the drone army of the future, if German industrial control and automation company, Festo, has anything to say about it. Revealed yesterday, eMotionButterflies are ultra-light robot... |
| 06.04.2014 | This ridiculously cool robot kangaroo stores energy between jumps (video) | A team of German engineers have completed work on a new robotic kangaroo that mimics the movements of the real-life flesh and blood animal.
The robot, officially called BionicKangaroo, is interesting because it pushes the boundaries of what... |
| 06.04.2014 | This ridiculously cool robot kangaroo stores energy between jumps (video) | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
A team of German engineers have completed work on... |
| 04.04.2014 | Today In Dystopian War Robots That Will Harvest Us For Our Organs… | In the year 2000 (well, more like 2020, at this rate), we TIDWRTWHUFOO fans will be able to ride six-wheeled robotic rovers into battle, our shorts flapping around our chicken legs, our friends hooting as we fall on our butts. But then the ... |
| 24.03.2014 | This Crazy Technology Brings 'Dr. Octopus' to Real Life (Sort Of) | March 24, 2014 2 min read
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Here's another for the "we're living in the future, and it is a creepy, creepy place" files: German engineers have developed a bionic tentacl... |
| 14.03.2014 | Today In Dystopian War Robots That Will Harvest Us For Our Organs… | Sure, Babar was a pretty cool elephant, but what happens when he becomes a cyborg bent on the destruction of the mustache man who stole his crown in Babar Loses His Crown? He goes out and gets one of these robotic trunks and starts tearing ... |
| 25.03.2011 | Woah, This Robobird Really Flies Like A Bird – Like, With Wings | The SmartBird, designed by Festo, is an ultra-light flying machine modeled on “herring gulls,” whatever those are (we have “seagulls” here), and it actually flies by flapping its wings as a bird would — not just up and down, either, but twi... |
| 23.04.2010 | Can you guess the inspiration for the Bionic Handling Assistant? | What you see here is the Bionic Handling Assistant, a sort of robotic arm designed to improve the interaction between humans and robots. Clearly this thing was inspired by Doc Ock from Spider-Man, right? There can be no doubt! Look at those... |
| - | Successful start RoboHouse | The new smart industry fieldlab RoboHouse gave its partners an exclusive look at its new facilities in RoboValley on 18 September. With a push on the button of its special entrance, general manager Jaimy Siebel declared RoboHouse in ‘beta’.... |
| - | New fieldlab RoboHouse officially open | The new fieldlab for advanced cognitive robotics RoboHouse is now officially open. During the well-attended opening ceremony on Thursday, RoboHouse got the fieldlab status from Jac Gofers (Smart Industry).
Gofers complimented on the effort... |
| - | Robotics & AI Accelerator: meet the start-ups | The first European Robotics & AI Accelerator Programme has officially started. Last Friday, the programme officially kicked off. Over the next two months, YES!Delft and RoboValley will help six start-ups to take their company to the nex... |
| - | Successful start RoboHouse | The new smart industry fieldlab RoboHouse gave its partners an exclusive look at its new facilities in RoboValley on 18 September. With a push on the button of its special entrance, general manager Jaimy Siebel declared RoboHouse in ‘beta’.... |
| - | Robotics & AI Accelerator: meet the start-ups | The first European Robotics & AI Accelerator Programme has officially started. Last Friday, the programme officially kicked off. Over the next two months, YES!Delft and RoboValley will help six start-ups to take their company to the nex... |
| - | New fieldlab RoboHouse officially open | The new fieldlab for advanced cognitive robotics RoboHouse is now officially open. During the well-attended opening ceremony on Thursday, RoboHouse got the fieldlab status from Jac Gofers (Smart Industry).
Gofers complimented on the effort... |
