🎬 The SOMIRO Final Video is Here! Witness the Future of Milli-Robotics in Action! 🚀🐟 After years of dedicated research and innovation, we are thrilled to present the Final Video of the SOMIRO Project! 🌍✨ In this exclusive footage, you’ll see our soft milli-robot in action: ✅ Swimming autonomously ✅ Avoiding obstacles ✅ Recognizing its environment This groundbreaking achievement in ultra-light, energy-efficient robotics marks a significant step forward in sustainable precision agriculture and aquatic monitoring. 🌿💧 A huge thank you to all our partners, researchers, and supporters who contributed to this extraordinary journey. This is just the beginning of what milli-robotics can achieve! 📽️ Watch the full video now and witness the future unfold! 👇 🔗 https://lnkd.in/etHYKQYk #SOMIRO #MilliRobotics #Innovation #SoftRobotics #FutureTech #Sustainability SOMIRO Proud Partners: Uppsala University EPFL Max Planck Society Johannes Kepler Universität Linz IMDEA Networks Institute Mycronic The Circle Warrant Hub - Tinexta Group
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The world’s first energy-autonomous swimming milli robot that will reduce the environmental impact of farming.
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SOMIRO is a Horizon 2020 funded project that will develop and demonstrate the world’s first energy-autonomous swimming milli-robot with the aim of reducing the environmental impact of farming in terms of carbon footprint, eutrophication and excessive use of pesticides and feed. These swimming milli-robots would cover a much larger area than stationary systems and they could be rapidly deployed and self-redistribute where most needed. They may serve as a stand-alone monitoring solution for indoor farming or complement drone-based remote sensing outdoors. Until today, no other energy autonomous milli-robot has been demonstrated capable to withstand hours of continuous operation. The major reason is power limitation: locomotion requires much power and small robots have very limited energy storage and energy uptake. Our goal is that the SOMIRO millirobots should reach sizes down to 10 mm long and look like the flatworms in the ocean. They will show that soft and stretchable systems require much less energy for movement than other robots of comparable size. To power, they will not rely on any dedicated energy infrastructure but only on natural sunlight. SOMIRO soft milli-robots will initially be tested in two different types of water environment, an aquaponic system and a paddy field, both located in Italy, but in the long-term, SOMIRO will be able to provide new tools for different areas of precision agriculture. PARTNERS: Uppsala Universitet (Sweden), École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (Switzerland), Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems (Germany), Universität Linz (Austria), Fundación IMDEA Networks (Spain), Mycronic AB (Sweden), Riso Preciso (Italy), The Circle (Italy), Warrant Hub SPA (Italy) This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 101016411
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- 11-50 employees
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- Casalecchio di Reno, BO
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- 2021
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- robotics and horizon 2020
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Somiro project reposted this
This highly agile flat swimming robot is smaller than a credit card. In our newest work ‘Highly agile flat swimming robot’ we leverage biomimentic design to make tiny yet fast swimming robots. The robot measures only 45 mm in length and propels on the water surface using a pair of undulating soft fins. The fins are driven at resonance by artificial muscles, allowing the robot to make complex maneuvers. In the future, this robot can be used to monitoring water quality or help with measuring fertilizer concentrations in rice fields. The work is now published in Science Robotics. A huge thank you to my EPFL co-authors Mrudhula Baskaran, Gaétan Raynaud, Mehdi Benbedda, Karen Mulleners, and Herbert Shea for making this work possible. Read the paper here: https://lnkd.in/dDuczd58 This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No101016411. #ScienceResearch #EPFL #maxplanck #SoftRobotics #MaritimeRobotics #Robotics #SwimmingRobots #ERC
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Somiro project reposted this
This highly agile flat swimming robot is smaller than a credit card. In our newest work ‘Highly agile flat swimming robot’ we leverage biomimentic design to make tiny yet fast swimming robots. The robot measures only 45 mm in length and propels on the water surface using a pair of undulating soft fins. The fins are driven at resonance by artificial muscles, allowing the robot to make complex maneuvers. In the future, this robot can be used to monitoring water quality or help with measuring fertilizer concentrations in rice fields. The work is now published in Science Robotics. A huge thank you to my EPFL co-authors Mrudhula Baskaran, Gaétan Raynaud, Mehdi Benbedda, Karen Mulleners, and Herbert Shea for making this work possible. Read the paper here: https://lnkd.in/dDuczd58 This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No101016411. #ScienceResearch #EPFL #maxplanck #SoftRobotics #MaritimeRobotics #Robotics #SwimmingRobots #ERC