Company profile
Festo
Festo supplies pneumatic, electric and digital automation technology for factory and process automation. Its robotics-relevant work spans motion components...
Facts
- Segment
- ACTUATION
- Country
- Germany
- Headquarters
- Esslingen am Neckar, Baden-Wurttemberg
- Founded
- 1925
- Website
- https://www.festo.com
About Festo
Festo supplies pneumatic and electrical automation technology, process-control equipment and technical education for industrial customers. Its portfolio includes cylinders, valves, servo drives, motion controllers, sensors, handling systems and training platforms.
The company also uses bionic and robotic research projects to explore new approaches to movement, gripping and human-machine interaction. Commercial capability depends on the selected component, control architecture and engineered application.
Market context
SUPPLY_CHAIN
Summary
Type: Automation supplier
Core: Grippers
Function: Pneumatics
Audience: Factories
Products
- BionicMotionRobot — industrial_robot_arm
- Robotino 4 — mobile_robot
Research, Articles and recent verified events
- Festo introduces GripperAI for mixed-product robot handling — 2026-05-12
- Festo introduces HPSX adaptive gripper for hygienic automation — 2025-12-03
- Festo introduces HPSX universal adaptive gripper for hygienic automation — 2025-12-03
- Acumino showcases healthcare robotics collaboration with Mitsubishi Electric and Festo — 2023-05-30
- NUTAI launches MAD Controller for external robot axes — 2021-04-29