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24/04/2009
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Festo has developed a group of three mechanical penguins, that, unlike their real world counterparts, can fly around as part of a research project into autonomous, collaborative robotics.
 Demonstrated at the just-held Hannover Fair in Germany, the three machines use their flippers to fly their way
around, while being monitored by ultrasonic transmitting stations. They use XBee, based on ZigBee to transmit data
by 2.4 GHz radio. The penguins recognise each other on the basis of their distances to the transmitting stations.
The AirPenguins are able to fly in a group without colliding, while also maintaining height control and positional
stability. As an alternative, they can act synchronously in a group.
The company believes that autonomous, versatile, adaptive self regulating processes will acquire increasing
significance in the future for automation in production. Much can be learned about this by studying the animal
kingdom.
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Tom Shelley
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