A four-winged robotic “dragonfly” with Long Island connections has landed — in the pages of Guinness World Records 2020. The BionicOpter, created by Festo AG, a global company with operations in ...

A small and ultralight UAV developed by engineers at Festo, Esslingen, Germany, reportedly can match the highly complex flight capabilities of a dragonfly. Called the BionicOpter, the robotic insect ...

After bird flight had been deciphered with the SmartBird in 2011, the developers took on their next-biggest challenge in the Bionic Learning Network: modelling the dragonfly at a technical level. The ...

A dragonfly’s brain anticipates the movement of its prey, and it could lead to better robotic vision. Researchers from Sweden and Australia discovered these insects have brain cells that allow ...

Combining nine electric motors with sensors, a microcontroller, and a lightweight carbon-fiber frame, engineers from Festo Corp. have created a mechanical dragonfly that can master more flight ...