That's a good PR. Instead of paying TV to say "FESTO makes best manufacturing automation devices" in a fancy way, they just dedicated some engineers and some budget to making cool things no-one ever did before.
The second thing I thought about after seeing that video was a story I had read a long time ago about a telepresence mechanical dragonfly. And then shazam, I clicked the link!
So what I find interesting is a swarm of these suckers. Put cameras on them and send a small swarm of 40-50 into a building. The fun part would be writing the pathfinding code so that they don't hit eachother.
While I am amazed at the engineering and seriously impressed at what they accomplished, I can't help but watch the video and think that that is one portly-looking dragonfly.
Meganeura is a genus of extinct insects from the Carboniferous period approximately 300 million years ago, which resembled and are related to the present-day dragonflies. With wingspans of up to 65 cm (25.6 in), M. monyi is one of the largest known flying insect species; the Permian Meganeuropsis permiana is another. Meganeura were predatory, and fed on other insects, and even small amphibians.
Not exactly where I live, but there's a mountain nearby and I recently happened to go trekking, there were some giant squirrels - At the size of an average puppy dog, or an over-grown cat...
