Modern fiber ropes have several distinctive properties which predestine them amongst others for high dynamic applications in robotics. Beside their great breaking load due to their high tensile streghth, the extremely low density and weight are the most important advantages over steel wire ropes. For steel wire ropes, it is generally known that their lifetime drops when raising the dynamic stress on running or static ropes. The long-time behavior of high-dynamically stressed fiber ropes is totally unexplored up to now. This lack impedes the breakthrough of fiber ropes and causes a safety gap, which has to be closed. This paper describes the research on modern fiber ropes regarding their lifetime in normal and high dynamic applications. The derived results are interpretered with respect to application in robotics.