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The following table provides information about the project.
Coordinator |
FONDAZIONE ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA
Organization address contact info |
Coordinator Country | Italy [IT] |
Total cost | 6˙997˙482 € |
EC max contribution | 6˙997˙482 € (100%) |
Programme |
1. H2020-EU.1.2.2. (FET Proactive) |
Code Call | H2020-FETPROACT-2018-01 |
Funding Scheme | RIA |
Starting year | 2019 |
Duration (year-month-day) | from 2019-01-01 to 2022-12-31 |
Take a look of project's partnership.
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1 | FONDAZIONE ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA | IT (GENOVA) | coordinator | 1˙507˙583.00 |
2 | SCUOLA SUPERIORE DI STUDI UNIVERSITARI E DI PERFEZIONAMENTO S ANNA | IT (PISA) | participant | 715˙000.00 |
3 | LINARI ENGINEERING SRL | IT (PISA) | participant | 703˙291.00 |
4 | CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE CNRS | FR (PARIS) | participant | 700˙500.00 |
5 | ARKYNE TECHNOLOGIES SL | ES (VILADECANS, BARCELONA) | participant | 700˙000.00 |
6 | ALBERT-LUDWIGS-UNIVERSITAET FREIBURG | DE (FREIBURG) | participant | 696˙166.00 |
7 | HELMHOLTZ-ZENTRUM GEESTHACHT ZENTRUM FUR MATERIAL- UND KUSTENFORSCHUNG GMBH | DE (GEESTHACHT) | participant | 695˙150.00 |
8 | TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY | IL (TEL AVIV) | participant | 679˙791.00 |
9 | GRAN SASSO SCIENCE INSTITUTE | IT (L'AQUILA) | participant | 600˙000.00 |
GrowBot proposes a disruptively new paradigm of movement in robotics inspired by the moving-by-growing abilities of climbing plants. Plants are still a quite unexplored model in robotics and ICT technologies, as their sessile nature leads to think that they do not move. Instead, they move greatly, on a different time scale, purposively, effectively and efficiently. To move from one point to another, plants must grow and continuously adapt their body to the external environmental conditions. This continuous growth is particularly evident in climbing plants. By imitating them, the GrowBot objective is to develop low-mass and low-volume robots capable of anchoring themselves, negotiating voids, and more generally climbing, where current climbing robots based on wheels, legs, or rails would get stuck or fall. Specifically, the ability to grow will be translated by additive manufacturing processes inside the robot, which creates its body by depositing new materials with multi-functional properties, on the basis of the perceived external stimuli (without a pre-defined design). Energy efficiency will be intrinsic to such approach, but novel bio-hybrid energy harvesting solutions will be also implemented to generate energy by interfacing soft technologies with real plants. Perception and behavior will be based on the adaptive strategies that allow climbing plants to explore the environment, described mathematically after experimental observations. GrowBot would contribute to consolidate this ground-breaking and pioneering research area on plant-inspired robotics that, although still in its infancy, can represent a revolutionary approach in robotics, as it has already happened with plant-inspired solutions in material science. GrowBot is based on a strongly interdisciplinary character and can open the way for a new technological paradigm around the concept of growing robots, fostering a European innovation eco-system for several high-tech sectors.
GrowBot Workshops I | Websites, patent fillings, videos etc. | 2020-04-03 15:16:14 |
Periodic activity report I | Documents, reports | 2020-04-03 15:13:53 |
Data Management Plan I | Open Research Data Pilot | 2020-04-03 15:13:34 |
GrowBot specifications and scenarios of use | Documents, reports | 2020-04-03 15:13:06 |
Tutorial on GrowBot-related technologies | Other | 2020-04-03 15:12:52 |
Workshops, Working Groups, Editorial Initiatives I | Other | 2020-04-03 15:15:09 |
Periodic management report I | Documents, reports | 2020-04-03 15:14:53 |
Tutorial on fundamentals of plants biology | Other | 2020-04-03 15:12:38 |
Communication, Dissemination, and Exploitation plan (“CoDE†plan) | Documents, reports | 2020-04-03 15:15:49 |
Project website and dissemination materials | Websites, patent fillings, videos etc. | 2020-04-03 15:15:34 |
Prizes I | Other | 2020-04-03 15:14:33 |
GrowBot Platform | Websites, patent fillings, videos etc. | 2020-04-03 15:14:17 |
Take a look to the deliverables list in detail: detailed list of GrowBot deliverables.
year | authors and title | journal | last update |
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2020 |
Dario Lunni, Matteo Cianchetti, Carlo Filippeschi, Edoardo Sinibaldi, Barbara Mazzolai Plantâ€Inspired Soft Bistable Structures Based on Hygroscopic Electrospun Nanofibers published pages: 1901310, ISSN: 2196-7350, DOI: 10.1002/admi.201901310 |
Advanced Materials Interfaces | 2020-02-19 |
2019 |
Giovanna A Naselli, Barbara Mazzolai The softness distribution index: towards the creation of guidelines for the modeling of soft-bodied robots published pages: 27836491989345, ISSN: 0278-3649, DOI: 10.1177/0278364919893451 |
The International Journal of Robotics Research | 2020-02-13 |
2019 |
Fabian Meder, Giovanna Adele Naselli, Ali Sadeghi, Barbara Mazzolai Remotely Lightâ€Powered Soft Fluidic Actuators Based on Plasmonicâ€Driven Phase Transitions in Elastic Constraint published pages: 1905671, ISSN: 0935-9648, DOI: 10.1002/adma.201905671 |
Advanced Materials 31/51 | 2020-02-13 |
2019 |
Emanuela Del Dottore, Alessio Mondini, Ali Sadeghi, Barbara Mazzolai Characterization of the Growing From the Tip as Robot Locomotion Strategy published pages: , ISSN: 2296-9144, DOI: 10.3389/frobt.2019.00045 |
Frontiers in Robotics and AI 6 | 2020-02-13 |
2019 |
Isabella Fiorello, Fabian Meder, Omar Tricinci, Carlo Filippeschi, Barbara Mazzolai Rose-Inspired Micro-device with Variable Stiffness for Remotely Controlled Release of Objects in Robotics published pages: 122-133, ISSN: , DOI: |
Lecture Notes in Computer Science book series 11556 | 2020-02-13 |
2019 |
Ali Sadeghi, Emanuela Del Dottore, Alessio Mondini, Barbara Mazzolai Passive Morphological Adaptation for Obstacle Avoidance in a Self-Growing Robot Produced by Additive Manufacturing published pages: , ISSN: 2169-5172, DOI: 10.1089/soro.2019.0025 |
Soft Robotics | 2020-02-13 |
2019 |
Thomas Speck, Olga Speck Quo vadis plant biomechanics: Old wine in new bottles or an upâ€andâ€coming field of modern plant science? published pages: 1399-1403, ISSN: 0002-9122, DOI: 10.1002/ajb2.1371 |
American Journal of Botany 106/11 | 2020-02-12 |
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