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German automation company

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Festo SE & Co. KG

Company 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	Thomas Böck (CEO)
Revenue	€3.65 billion (2023)
Number of employees	20,545 (2023)
Website	www.festo.com/group

Festo is a German automation company based inEsslingen am Neckar,Germany.^[1] Festo produces and sellspneumatic and electrical control systems and drive technology for factories andprocess automation. Festo Didactic also offersindustrial education and consultation services and is one of the sponsors and partners of theWorldSkills Mechatronics Competitions. Sales subsidiaries, distribution centres and factories of Festo are located in 61 countries worldwide. The company was named after its founders AlbertFezer and GottliebStoll.

Animal robots

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Festo is known for making moving robots that move like animals such as the seagull-likeSmartBird, jellyfish, butterflies and theBionicKangaroo.^[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.”^{[citation needed]}