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Welcome to Bioinspired Soft Robotics

FROM NATURE TO NATURE - A MUTUAL COMBINATION OF BIOLOGY AND ENGINEERING

A highly multidisciplinary approach to designing and developing new technologies, taking inspiration from nature and, at the same time, revealing new biological phenomena.

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Our biological models

IIT People

Principal Investigator

Barbara Mazzolai

Bioinspired Soft Robotics

Openings

Our projects

Our projects

[BSR] - Projects

The I-Wood ERC Consolidator grant investigates the plant-fungus interactions and pioneers a new paradigm in Robotics and Artificial Intelligence by taking inspiration to the communication and behavioural abilities of the Wood Wide Web.

I-Seed aims at developing a new generation of self-deployable and biodegradable soft miniaturized robots, inspired by the morphology and dispersion abilities of plant seeds.

GrowBot proposes a disruptively new paradigm of movement in robotics inspired by the moving-by-growing abilities of climbing plants and their ability to negotiate voids.

RoboCom++ gathers the community and organises the knowledge necessary to rethink the design principles and fabrication technologies of future robots.

EOLO aims at the development of biohybrid systems for the energy harvesting from plants.

SMASH aims at creating a collaborative, modular, and integrated robotic ecosystem for the monitoring and sustainable management of agricultural crops.

The PLANTOID project aims at taking inspiration from the smart, effective, and efficient strategies of plant roots to develop a new generation of robots and ICT technologies.

BSR Application Challenges

Application Innovations

Agriculture

Crop monitoring
Soil exploration

Rescue

Monitoring and exploration
Supply of provisions

Green Planet

Green energy harvesting
Environmental monitoring

Industry

Delicate manipulation
Challenging environments

Materials

Functional materials
Reversible attachment

Health

Safe human-interaction
Assisted living

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