Somiro project, Europe


SOMIRO | Soft millirobot

Aug 3, 2021

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.
 

Agile flat swimming robot propelled by undulating soft fins

Feb 19, 2025

"Researchers at EPFL have developed a highly agile flat swimming robot. This robot is smaller than a credit card, 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 perform complex maneuvers. In the future, this robot can be used for monitoring water quality or help with measuring fertilizer concentrations in rice fields. The work was published in Science Robotics in February 2025.The EPFL labs involved are the Soft Tranducers lab (EPFL-LMTS) and the Unsteady flow diagnostics laboratory (EPFL-UNFOLD).

Read the paper here: science.org/doi/10.1126/scirobotics.adr0721

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No101016411, project SOMIRO.

Video produced by: Florian HartmannVideo photography: Florian Hartmann, Michael Smith, and Stock videos from pexels.comMusic: ‘Movement’ by Oleg Fedak from Pixabay
 
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