Comments on: Flying manta ray blimp

By: T3h_Muffinator

T3h_Muffinator — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 23:44:38 +0000

I’m not….. exactly sure, but I could have sworn I saw that at “Design and the Elastic Mind” @ MOMA in NYC.

By: CodeMonkey

CodeMonkey — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 21:45:51 +0000

very very cool! ...but you missed their flying jelly fish:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_citFkSNtk

By: mark0

mark0 — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 19:59:55 +0000

its quite cool, my dad works for them, and they do all sorts of weird, bio-tech-like robots and devices, just for the fun of it, while they make a living from doing industry robots.

By: g

Wed, 04 Jun 2008 16:52:49 +0000

great, the posts ignore uppercase. We're all forced to write like jery yang.

well, the first "L" and "P" are supposed to be uppercase on the above comment.

By: s

Wed, 04 Jun 2008 12:29:52 +0000

such as… “he’s not safe even in heaven”?

By: Kyle

Kyle — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 07:07:55 +0000

I know there is a terribly offensive joke about Steve Irwin in there somewhere.

By: techyguru

techyguru — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 04:57:46 +0000

I wonder how large one of these could be made, and if it could handle any wind hitting it. I would love to see one of these flying around a disaster scene providing cellphone, ham radio and police radio relay.

By: g

Wed, 04 Jun 2008 02:34:53 +0000

LiPo not lipo (fat)

By: zorink

zorink — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 01:07:38 +0000

Where can I get one?

By: Johnny B. Goode

Johnny B. Goode — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 00:39:55 +0000

That thing is seriously cool. The movement seemed quite fluid. It kind of reminds me of the floating jellyfish.

By: Schnulli

Schnulli — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 00:10:40 +0000

I’ve seen that manta before. Festo is located two small cities next to me. I hope I can work there again in the summer ;) They’re one of the best known firms in the are here.

By: Doug

Doug — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 22:55:14 +0000

heh, I thought I saw this site on here a couple of years back.
Unrelated to the manta, but their “Airicâs arm” is an awesome piece of bionic tech. As opposed to current artificial limb technology based on servos, this uses a series of pressurised tubes to mimic fluid, muscle movement.

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 22:54:37 +0000

kinda reminds me of flying jiffy pop

By: Ryan

Ryan — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 22:01:39 +0000

Reminds me of those large flyers/bombers on Xen in Half-Life

Creepy.

By: EvilTwin

EvilTwin — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 21:32:28 +0000

That is seriously cool-looking. The Zeppelin mk2! ; )