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.
These swimming milli-robots would cover a much larger area than stationary systems and they could be rapidly deployed and self-redistribute where most needed. They may serve as a stand-alone monitoring solution for indoor farming or complement drone-based remote sensing outdoors. Until today, no other energy autonomous milli-robot has been demonstrated capable to withstand hours of continuous operation. The major reason is power limitation: locomotion requires much power and small robots have very limited energy storage and energy uptake.
Our goal is that the SOMIRO millirobots should reach sizes down to 10
mm long and look like the flatworms in the ocean. They will show that
soft and stretchable systems require much less energy for movement than
other robots of comparable size. To power, they will not rely on any dedicated energy infrastructure but only on natural sunlight.
SOMIRO soft milli-robots will initially be tested in two different types of water environment, an aquaponic system and a paddy field, both located in Italy, but in the long-term, SOMIRO will be able to provide new tools for different areas of precision
agriculture.
PARTNERS:
Uppsala Universitet (Sweden), École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (Switzerland), Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems (Germany), Universität Linz (Austria), Fundación IMDEA Networks (Spain), Mycronic AB (Sweden), Riso Preciso (Italy), The Circle (Italy), Warrant Hub SPA (Italy)
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 101016411
Company Details
- Founded
- -
- Address
- Casalecchio Di Reno, Bo 44033, It
- Industry
- Research
- Website
- https://www.somiro.eu
- Keywords
- robotics and horizon 2020.
- HQ
- Casalecchio di Reno, BO
Somiro Project Questions
Somiro Project's website is https://www.somiro.eu
Somiro Project's LinkedIn profile is https://it.linkedin.com/company/somiroproject
Somiro Project's industry is
Research
Somiro Project's top competitors are
The Circle,
Smarthaps,
Living Machines 2023,
Mcbees,
H-Alo,
Educando,
Plasmore S.r.l.,
Hortiqd Project,
Greener Project,
Deepfaic.
Somiro Project's categories are Research
Somiro Project's founding year is 2021
