Objective
RESSORT (Resilient, Efficient Soft & Sustainable Optimized Robotics Technology) addresses Europe’s urgent need for safer, adaptable, and sustainable robotic systems by advancing soft robotics from lab prototypes to real-world applications. Traditional rigid robots, while precise, lack the flexibility and safety required for human-centric environments. Soft robotics—built from compliant, multifunctional materials—offers a transformative alternative, enabling safer human interaction, dynamic adaptability, and energy-efficient operation. Yet, Europe’s soft robotics sector remains underfunded and under-commercialized, with few solutions reaching high TRL levels.
RESSORT bridges this gap by integrating groundbreaking self-healing materials, variable-stiffness structures, and affordable soft 3D tactile sensing with AI-based control and multi-material additive manufacturing. The project will deliver three demonstrators: a patient-specific soft exosuit, a collaborative food-handling gripper/soft arm, and a morphing inspection drone. These systems will be validated at TRL≈7 in healthcare, food logistics, and industrial settings to enable wide spillovers.
To ensure market readiness, RESSORT embeds sustainability-aware design guidelines, certification pathways, and exploitation roadmaps. By retrofitting existing platforms with soft modules, the project accelerates adoption without infrastructure disruption. RESSORT aligns with EU priorities on safety, circularity, and European-developed AI and materials, contributing to the Digital Decade and EUGreendeal goals. Through coordinated dissemination and engagement, RESSORT will catalyze a new generation of resilient, efficient, and sustainable soft robotic technologies enabling unmet capabilities in robot systems.
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- engineering and technology electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering electronic engineering robotics autonomous robots drones
- engineering and technology mechanical engineering manufacturing engineering additive manufacturing
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Programme(s)
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HORIZON.2.4 - Digital, Industry and Space
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HORIZON.2.4.2 - Key Digital Technologies
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HORIZON.2.4.5 - Artificial Intelligence and Robotics
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HORIZON-IA - HORIZON Innovation Actions
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Call for proposal
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(opens in new window) HORIZON-CL4-2025-04
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1050 Bruxelles / Brussel
Belgium
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