Festo BionicBee

[@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.

[@pavulon5000]

Why do you even compare the two?

[@cbbbbbbbbbbbb]

@@pavulon5000 Oh yeah, why compare two companies that do bio-mimicry robotics and produce youtube videos. What's to compare? They have nothing in common...

[@pavulon5000]

@@cbbbbbbbbbbbbridiculous. compare what both companies do in terms of biomimicry and what is their core business.

[@cbbbbbbbbbbbb]

@@pavulon5000 It's a video. The original comment was comparing this video, on this video sharing platform, with another video, on this video sharing platform, by a similar company, presenting similar "products." Comparison of their presentation is relevant and on topic.

[@pavulon5000]

@@cbbbbbbbbbbbb yeah okay

[@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?

[@SilencedFeelings]

It's great to know we can always count on another anonimous genius expert behind a screen telling us what the engineers of a big high-tech company can't do. Thanx 👍🏻

[@MapedMod]

@@SilencedFeelings Sweetie I also happen to work in robotics. This is not uncommon for people from the same field to check out what others are doing. I am not talking about what they can or cannot do, I am saying that they showed absolutely nothing. This video is more like a Kickstarter campaign promo than tech demo and one could wonder why exactly they don't want to show what they achieved. Even bragging about procedural ways to minimize the weight is industry standard for years now. It is not only not new. It is outdated.

[@foop145]

​@@SilencedFeelings good thing you can hide behind personal attacks instead of addressing any of the arguments made. This video is stock footage, a bunch of "inspirational" quotes that say nothing, and shitty cgi slapped on top. I hope you're not getting paid to shill for this garbage, because you're doing a piss poor job of it lol

[@s_cycle1921]

@@MapedMod I was also curious at the end of the video as to why the flight shots were so short, and after the buildup to rely so much on renders. I'm still impressed, but it did leave me wondering.....

[@OleBrouer]

@@MapedMod While I agree that this video is a pretty bad showcase, the bionic bee itself is extremely impressive and it works great. They showcased it live last week at Hannover Messe and I, as also the many other people visiting, can attest that it can in fact fly way longer than shown in the video (an engineer I talked to that worked on it said roughly ten minutes and at least 4 minutes were showcased live) and the movement is impressively controlled and stable. They flew four of them over the heads of a small crowed of people for five days and like eight times a day so it better be.

[@neverevenwaso]

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

[@kklol07]

i KNOW RIGHT!!!

[@JulakantiVikas]

Wym?

[@neverevenwaso]

@@JulakantiVikas watch black mirror, season 3 episode 6: “hated in the nation”

[@AnonymationOfficial]

@@JulakantiVikasthey aren't fixing the problem they aren't even delaying the inevitable extinction of honey bee's instead just mimicking / replacing the insects instead of saving what already works they are polluting the air by creating plastic robots that in the end of their lifecycle will end up in landfills

[@theEpicjosh365]

In that example, they were as small as a real bee and included facial scanning so they could [SPOILER]. Here, the bee is a bit bigger and doesn't have facial scanning, but may have IR scanning like they do in the show. However, if everything I say comes true, it'll be quick to note that it's a bad idea. The episode is called "Hated In The Nation" if anyone's interested.

[@stavkous4963]

*"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

[@zigma_visual5592]

But there is an explanation as to how bees fly. It's due to how fast the wings oscillate. They displace more air for lift than most insects.

[@nufSaid_]

So go be a bee hmm.

[@zigma_visual5592]

@@nufSaid_ 😒

[@FactsWithActs]

​@@zigma_visual5592🤓☝️

[@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.

[@robertgeiss9985]

I saw the bee fly with my own eyes for several minutes at the Hannover Messe last week

[@arcadiusvinzenz6005]

There are loads of Videos about the bee. Its not a scam

[@mostfunnestchannel]

Festo making tech for the year 2000.

[@PVPnb]

We create amazing tech just for it to be used for meaningless tasks

[@mostfunnestchannel]

@@PVPnb all this was amazing and innovative maybe 20 years ago. A drone with a 5 minute battery life that barely flies is not innovative or amazing anymore. Ornithopters are not practical or efficient, imagine what just a 5 mph wind would do to that thing, it is just for show.

[@christopherneufelt8971]

@@mostfunnestchannel Actually the ornithopters are nice for reduced power management; they make excellent drones. The question currently that you should ask is why you don't see them very often in the industry or even consumer electronics industry. If you can answer this to yourself, please don't answer here, to keep your social credit intact.

[@ericschleppenbach3519]

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.

[@prophecyrat2965]

Which works pwrfectly when its in its natural emviornment not in a fuckin zoo or lab. Creatures and the Enviornment are ONE. Something inefectual fools will never understand, damn Civilized minds never will.

[@dannycameron]

Why is this not called Beeonic?

[@NoOnesIdea]

Beecause the company name is Pesto.

[@faisalinsider]

Because in the future, the creation of bionic animals can be of many kinds, so that the name is more general and not so specific to just bees.

[@RK-zm3xy]

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!

[@alexsetterington3142]

Impressive? It looks to be about same size as DJI mavic, but unstable, slow, weak, and can fly for only 4 minutes. But this first I've seen it, maybe it is way better than it looks.

[@handscissor1]

Me too! I saw several! It is real! In Hannover industry expo in 2024 in April.

[@robertgeiss9985]

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.

[@ikeu6433]

wow, Festo shouldve filmed it

[@Drakonus_]

So where's the footage of that? Why are they not showing it?

[@julianreverse]

@@Drakonus_ They are showing it in this video 🤦‍♂🤦‍♂🤦‍♂🤦‍♂🤦‍♂🤦‍♂

[@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.

[@jonathanberry8498]

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

[@KevinHarper3DArtist]

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.

[@robertoalonso3484]

take 5 cents and buy a life.... Maybe you feel very important because you think a video has been deleted for your hate-filled opinions without having any idea of the goal of Festo Bionics...They do not intend to manufacture any commercial product, nor prove anything to anyone. They have a budget to design a "robotic" animal every year, and they just do it. Some are more spectacular than others, but there is no purpose behind it other than to do some marketing and create cool things to make some videos, take them to 4 fairs and 4 TV shows. Live and let others live, if you don't like the videos, pass them, or even block them, it's that simple.

[@KevinHarper3DArtist]

@@robertoalonso3484 I must have really hit a nerve here. Do you see my comment as hate? Because I see it as criticism. The reason people are criticizing in the first place is not because we hate, the very opposite, we love and anticipate. We comment because we care, because we have watched your videos in the past and have been amazed. And the bee is great... but the presentation is RIDICLOUS! Dont you see that? It would help to reflect and learn from it instead of getting offended. "if you dont like the videos, pass them" not sure if you are asking me to shut up, but if you dont want feedback you can turn off the comment section. /shrug.

[@teachingthecode4651]

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.

[@raphaelcaldwell3831]

what are you on

[@MrNote-lz7lh]

​@@raphaelcaldwell3831 History. You should try it it'd blow your mind.

[@danielwhyatt3278]

Since when? Don’t think I’ve even HEARD of Festo until now!

[@happygilmore2100]

Is that a joke.

[@roshansiraj6330]

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

[@feryfez]

One of my favorite German companies

[@zigma_visual5592]

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!

[@B_MoreJ]

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

[@a_bar8579]

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

[@arcanjosousa990]

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

[@allstreamedupvi]

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

[@SDFNI3894YR]

what are uses of such techbees? anyone kindly answer.

[@GigaBit-i2j]

So, do you have some real video showing a take off, flight and landing?

[@cv3076]

The head and tail are just for aesthetics?

[@clarenceteo6833]

That's so cool to see it fly! Sigh... I'm jealous! Unfortunately I didn't have the same success, and failed at accomplishing such a feat due to coupling of my pitch and yaw axis. I've recognized the many components used from servos, motors, and even 3D printed material. Wondering if its possible to reach out to your team that made this amazing machine!

[@CK3DPRINTS]

Prestige Worldwide! Investors, maybe you?

[@WOOF3RHEAD]

Yeah, great but how long can fly?

[@JamesNewton]

4 minutes as per the datasheet.

[@WOOF3RHEAD]

@@JamesNewton Like nature.

[@frednel4326]

Interesting 🤔, so when can I buy one ???

[@michaelkidd1065]

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

[@devrim-oguz]

I love how Festo keeps spawning robotic bugs and animals 😄

[@alternateimagegaming]

At the "nature always works efficiently and reliably", I had to bounce. Someone doesn't understand so many things to put that in their script.

[@K.F-R]

Marketing got carried away again? More bot detail, less hyperbole please. :)

[@absence9443]

What is it for?

[@xKlondikex]

Hey I saw this Black Mirror episode.

[@schwartzmatthewe]

Very cool but why?

[@pacanosiu]

ok, how much, where to buy?

[@DeGrale.]

I thought Bees flew by creating a vortex underneath them, using rotational wings?

[@kengurusafari]

They wobble so badly I'm curious as to why they didn't have the wings smaller, and a second set of them moving in a sort of counter :/

[@isDatBoi]

Why they delete previous video and disable comments??

[@FPVREVIEWS]

most people have no clue how difficult it is to create a vTOL ornithopter. Too bad it's also very impractical, but it's an amazing feat of engineering.

[@piuniverse9306]

Someone was probably like "I have an idea.... let make a drone and make it look like a bee"

[@blessedforlife240]

Exactly! People need to WAKEUP & stop being so damn brainwashed & gullible! Those minions of Satan aren't for humanity! It's all a setup!

[@joelface]

I mean the cool thing about this is that it's actually oscillating wings instead of spinning blades. As well, since it's so light it may have a few different possible uses. Not that I claim to know what those might be. I definitely would've preferred to see a more toned down video with more footage and possible uses rather than the overhyped marketing advertisement they put out.

[@blessedforlife240]

People WAKEUP! They're not making this bee for fun. There's an hidden agenda behind it like all the other not good inventions they're creating. They're against humanity & are demonstrating it thru all that's happening in the world! People STOP being brainwashed and gullible! They need to be stopped & shutdown!! Why aren't they helping the poor & less fortunate? Why aren't they creating solutions to make the world better- hunger, poverty etc..Why aren't they using quality control to protect our foods, why are the creating robots that are replacing humans, why create an EV vehicle where the battery is over priced & not a good source for transportation? People ASK questions, take action & spread awareness! Don't trust ANY of their inventions- it's not to protect us!!!

[@blessedforlife240]

People WAKEUP! They're not making this bee for fun. There's an hidden agenda behind it like all the other not good inventions they're creating. They're against humanity & are demonstrating it thru all that's happening in the world! People STOP being brainwashed and gullible! They need to be stopped & shutdown!! Why aren't they helping the poor & less fortunate? Why aren't they creating solutions to make the world better- hunger, poverty etc..Why aren't they using quality control to protect our foods, why are the creating robots that are replacing humans, why create an EV vehicle where the battery is over priced & not a good source for transportation? People ASK questions, take action & spread awareness! Don't trust ANY of their inventions- it's not to protect us!!!

[@metacats2017]

This looks much bigger than your description. The toy bug plane looks similar, so what's the difference?

[@ZZZ333]

What’s the point in it?

[@kovurudamodarreddy3454]

can it withstand against winds?

[@sumitrautela6175]

what is this? used for look like drone

[@computerjantje]

because we cannot really see what is animation and what is real, this video tells me nothing.

[@cybercrafted]

Maybe it's not that ideal, maybe it's even useless and crazy, but just keep in mind how "aesthetic" first image generations with AI were also considered nonsense and rubbish, but, in a matter of two years how things changed :D Technology keeps growing, and we don't know what it is capable of until we try.

[@omarmaaroof9621]

Is it electrical actuators? What about using a pneumatic energy source

[@Cybo-Man]

Because you need pumps for pneumatics which are very heavy and power hungry.

[@namingsway]

I don't know why I thought they made a 1:1 bee . Its massive and raggedy . Fly's like Michael J Fox .

[@Fleche_FPV]

Flying Time ?

[@pary327]

Great engineering but it does what exactly?

[@NoOnesIdea]

It flies around.

[@berzerkinggodzilla2511]

So when do we scale these up and make real insectacons for demolition purposes?

[@MichaelBohemian]

Glad it’s not the size of a fingernail but I feel like that’s coming. Reminds me of Black Mirror episode Most Hated in the Nation with the swarm of bee bots.

[@꿹뛹쁅쮋쁅]

Why were those made? Just to fly around?

[@DragonHoodBeef]

On god like wtf😂

[@coldnhot369]

These guys are making toys.

[@Duhveedoh]

What is the application of this? I mean, I guess it'd be a cool toy

[@artcurious807]

how much ? there is a big market for school projects and robot kits

[@SarinaFreeman-l1z]

too big, it doesnt look like real bee in size, also how much it can load?

[@aNicerPlace]

Fascinating, although nature doesn't always work efficiently nor reliably!

[@aaronmccombs4966]

0:13 "Nature is our inspiration" 2:16 *proceed to create a piece of crap a 5 year old with a 3D printer and an Arduino could do better. Question: have you ever seen an actual bee under the microscope??? Or just the cartoon, animated version?. And I'm not even going to touch all of amazing things bees can accomplish on a daily basis....this is beyond ludicrous.

[@ahmetizmir1081]

Well done Festo. You have done very well what I have been working on for the last 20 years. :/

[@bramha_labs]

Can I get your mail, I'm also a roboticist

[@nihil_._sum]

hope you're not a video editor

[@NewSocialistEraVideos]

There REALLY needs to BEE more puns! (I'll see myself out)

[@hasanalikumru5021]

En güzel sanatçı ALLAH tır Biz sadece onu taklit ederiz

[@__Feniks__]

ты пчела я пчеловод, вместе курим мед, пусть с тобой мне повезет !!!

[@kklol07]

didn't you guys watch black mirror?

[@OddElephantLTU]

What's the point of this?

[@mho...]

whats the point of innovation or progress?!

[@Pengun3]

@@mho... No, what's the point of making a robot look and fly exactly like a bee, when you could make a smaller more efficient drone that could do the same thing. This is just a really advanced toy.

[@mho...]

@@Pengun3 because its possible..... what are you discussing here?! its a study in whats possible, how do ppl not get that?! if you never build something new, you never fiind new things... you might aswell ask, why do science? why do fundamental physics? why "do the math" & calculate trajectories of galaxies in outer space?! why be curious?!.........

[@Pengun3]

@@mho... First off, you don't need to get so defensive, I was just making a statement. Secondly, this technology isn't new, insect like drones that can fly by flapping their wings has been demonstrated already. I'm pretty sure MIT did something similar over a decade ago. Various Chinese universities also built similar things. Secondly, they are literally a company, they're trying to make a product. So again I ask the question, why make something inefficient when you can make something smaller and more efficient? That's probably more controllable? We should be trying to innovate as humans, like you said, build something new. We should be trying to develop a technology never seen before, one that preforms a task better then nature, better then humans. Sure it's cool that they built a bee drone, but it's not really doing anything new, or better.

[@OddElephantLTU]

@@mho... of a toy that does nothing.

[@christopherrichardwadedett4100]

Why not a real bee with electronic additions?

[@Mrblobbster]

Interesting but what’s the point of this thing? Surely it can’t fly for very long

[@koreanjesus2712]

should've put your effort into covering those chrome domes

[@SweetSwancomtr]

*Ateistlere ithaf ediyoruz.* 1-) Bu parçalar kendi kendine (tesadüfen) bir araya gelmiş ve bionicbee ortaya çıkmıştır. 2-) Bionicbee'yi doğa yapmıştır 3-) Bionicbee'yi iradesi ,ilmi ve kudreti olan birileri yapmıştır. Sizce hangisi ???

[@lambda3553]

point of this is to fly places carrying .01 g of cargo? If your idea is to pollenate to replace bees, this is half the battle.

[@jatigre1]

We all know where the money is, it depends how much explosive it can carry.

[@FPVREVIEWS]

an ornithopter will never carry a lot of weight. this type of design can barely carry it's own weight, and only works at a small scale and very small cube wing loading. Or cube arc loading in the case of a VTOL ornithopter. Festo makes only bio inspired designs, which have many uses which are almost all not blowing stuff up.

[@MapedMod]

The buoyancy in that scale wouldn't be able to lift the container that would hold the gas and it would add drag to the whole contraption.

[@3DWolfEngineering]

NO way thats absolutely awesome, my respect to all engineers that worked on making that possible as it is a extremely difficult task

[@boringman6491]

How about bionic human?

[@United_Wings]

Believe it when i see it

[@philmprod]

I don't want to be pessimistic, but I'm preparing myself for any eventuality. it's a technology that could have potential. after drones, these things could be great toys for children, for example. But remember. Black Mirror, season 3 episode 6. When they manage to miniaturise this, I don't want this technology to replace our beloved bees in 10-20 years' time.

[@ابراهيمالصالحي-ظ3د]

❤❤❤ ‏‪0:38‬‏

[@TheFloatingSheep]

itur is our inspiration idearrs

[@CYI3ERPUNK]

mimicry is the most sincerest form of flattery indeed

[@blessedforlife240]

‼️PEOPLE GET INVOLVED ON WHAT'S GOING ON IN THE WORLD! SPREAD AWARENESS & TAKE ACTION. START PETITIONS & HAVE THOSE MINIONS OF SATAN EXPOSED!!!!

[@blessedforlife240]

💯💯💯

[@hhdgdhum]

If somebody could make a robot to finish off house mice, I would buy it!!!

[@mayam.1430]

Pardon my question but what is the purpose of this invention? I don't find the answer in these videos. Considered, the robotics are highly disturbing to the nature's species when in action, adding waves ...it better be worth getting inspired by nature to then create things to harm it. My personal opinion.

[@gauravbhatnagarofficial]

Waiting for @festo to make a mecha Godzilla 🗿

[@daatm2719]

Y'all need to see the blackmirror episode

[@Gear_labs]

Hmm making lots of flight devices based on these mechanisms can boost alternative approaches new plane design which is dropped due to budget

[@CuriositiesCaptured]

Was that John Fetterman looking through that loop?

[@pcguidelk]

interesting and expecting more....

[@ederplays2788]

What the frutiger aero

[@kobalt9948]

that bee drunk as shit

[@Astropowergtv]

Nature never do mistakes only humans do

[@toxichuman208]

Mutation enters tha chat.

[@LPM147]

These guys should rename their company "Weyland Corp." and no one would be the wiser.

[@Ch17638]

Why this design to make it look like a bee , when current drones has already gone through multiple revisions, tests and real-world testing . I have a feeling that the slightest gust of wind will send this to the e-waste bin

[@Siranoxz]

You guys should make a humanoid robot too..

[@Cybo-Man]

Soon to be on the clearance aisle in your local Walmart in Holiday 2024

[@pdjinne65]

Okay, but it's not bionic, bionic means organic + enhanced with tech. This is a drone.

[@idus_7]

*power over spice* *is power over all*

[@ElmoTrolla]

Can you make the video a bit slower please? I think you missed the fact that watching at 2x speed is almost ok.

[@mrdjchasm]

Richy Rich had this way before you guys...

[@readyhouse]

the music is a bit over the top

[@asiulordepalayaadeur4396]

Please, design a hummingbird-inspired robot.