Festo

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Festo AG & Co. KG

Type	Kommanditgesellschaft
Industry	Automation
Founded	Esslingen am Neckar, Weimar Republic (1925 (1925))
Founder	Albert Fezer Gottlieb Stoll
Headquarters	Esslingen am Neckar , Germany
Number of locations	Sankt Ingbert
Key people	Oliver Jung (CEO)
Revenue	€3,1 billion (2018)
Number of employees	20,100 (2018)
Website	www.festo.com/group

Festo is the top brand of German multinational industrial control and automation company based in Esslingen am Neckar, Germany.^[1] Festo produces and sells pneumatic and electrical control and drive technology for factory or process automation. Festo Didactic also offers industrial education and consultancy services and is one of the sponsors and partners of the WorldSkills Mechatronics Competitions. Sales subsidiaries, distribution centers and factories are located in 61 countries worldwide. The company was named after its founders Albert Fezer and Gottlieb Stoll.

Animal robots[]

Festo is known for making moving robots that move like animals, such as the sea gull like SmartBird, jellyfish, butterflies and kangaroos.^[2] In 2018 they also added a flying fox and a rolling spider to the list.^[3] Festo calls their Bionic Flying Fox an “ultra-lightweight flying object with intelligent kinematics.”

See also[]

• BionicKangaroo
• Robotino

References[]

External links[]

• Bloomberg profile
• Official website
• Official website Festo Didactic
• Festo UK Website
• Festo US Website