Project description
Growing robots like plants
Plants pose underestimated source of inspiration. They climb up and expand horizontally while using amazing technics. They utilise purposively very complex solutions to adapt themselves to the external environment and grow efficiently in the most effective ways. But their systems remain unexplored. The EU-funded GrowBot project aims to be a pioneer in learning from plants to create a disruptive paradigm of movement in robotics and information and communication technologies. Specifically, it will research similar to the moving-by-growing plant abilities – anchoring, negotiating voids and generally climbing – to replace wheels, legs or rails in robots with climbing ones to avoid getting stuck or falling. Translation of such functions into manufacturing processes inside the robots will foster European innovation in high-tech ecosystems.
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RIA - Research and Innovation actionCoordinator
16163 Genova
Italy
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Participants (9)
21502 Geesthacht
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69978 Tel Aviv
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67100 L'aquila
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56127 Pisa
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79098 Freiburg
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56121 Pisa
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75794 Paris
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34090 Montpellier
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08840 Barcelona
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The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.