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Thread: Soft robotics, Center for Micro-BioRobotics, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT), Pontedera, Italy

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    Soft robotics, Center for Micro-BioRobotics, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT), Pontedera, Italy

    Center for Micro-BioRobotics

    Soft Robotics Laboratory - bsr.iit.it

    Soft Robotics Laboratory is part of the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, with its location at the Center for Micro-Biorobotics in Pontedera. The Soft Robotics Priority originates from the pioneering work on the Plantoid robot (EU-FP7-FETOpen grant n. 29343) and bioinspired technologies.
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    The first tendril-like soft robot able to climb

    Published on Jan 28, 2019

    Researchers at Center for Micro-BioRobotics of IIT obtained the first soft robot mimicking plant tendrils: it is able to curl and climb, using the same physical principles determining water transport in plants. The research team is led by Barbara Mazzolai and results have been published in Nature Communications. In the future this tendril-like soft robot could inspire the development of wearable devices, such as soft braces, able to actively morph their shape.

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    A new bioinspired earthworm robot for future underground explorations

    Mar 1, 2023

    Researchers of IIT's BioInspired Soft robotics lab coordinated by Barbara Mazzolai, have realized a new soft robot inspired by the biology of earthworms,which is able to crawl thanks to soft actuators that elongate or squeeze, when air passes through them or is drawn out. The prototype has been described in the international journal Scientific Reports of the Nature Portfolio, and it is the starting point for developing devices for underground exploration, but also search and rescue operations in confined spaces and the exploration of other planets.

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