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GrowBot SIGNED

Towards a new generation of plant-inspired growing artefacts

Total Cost €

EC-Contrib. €

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Project "GrowBot" data sheet

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Coordinator	FONDAZIONE ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA Organization address address: VIA MOREGO 30 city: GENOVA postcode: 16163 website: www.iit.it contact info title: n.a. name: n.a. surname: n.a. function: n.a. email: n.a. telephone: n.a. fax: n.a.
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

Partnership

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#	participants	country	role	EC contrib. [€]
1	FONDAZIONE ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA FONDAZIONE ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA Organization address address: VIA MOREGO 30 city: GENOVA postcode: 16163 website: www.iit.it contact info title: n.a. name: n.a. surname: n.a. function: n.a. email: n.a. telephone: n.a. fax: n.a.	IT (GENOVA)	coordinator	1˙507˙583.00
2	SCUOLA SUPERIORE DI STUDI UNIVERSITARI E DI PERFEZIONAMENTO S ANNA SCUOLA SUPERIORE DI STUDI UNIVERSITARI E DI PERFEZIONAMENTO S ANNA Organization address address: PIAZZA MARTIRI DELLA LIBERTA 33 city: PISA postcode: 56127 website: www.sssup.it contact info title: n.a. name: n.a. surname: n.a. function: n.a. email: n.a. telephone: n.a. fax: n.a.	IT (PISA)	participant	715˙000.00
3	LINARI ENGINEERING SRL LINARI ENGINEERING SRL Organization address address: VIA UMBERTO FORTI 24/14 city: PISA postcode: 56121 website: www.linaribiomedical.com contact info title: n.a. name: n.a. surname: n.a. function: n.a. email: n.a. telephone: n.a. fax: n.a.	IT (PISA)	participant	703˙291.00
4	CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE CNRS CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE CNRS Organization address address: RUE MICHEL ANGE 3 city: PARIS postcode: 75794 website: www.cnrs.fr contact info title: n.a. name: n.a. surname: n.a. function: n.a. email: n.a. telephone: n.a. fax: n.a.	FR (PARIS)	participant	700˙500.00
5	ARKYNE TECHNOLOGIES SL ARKYNE TECHNOLOGIES SL Organization address address: CALLE DE LA TECNOLOGIA 17 - EDIFICIO CANADA PLANTA city: VILADECANS, BARCELONA postcode: 8840 website: n.a. contact info title: n.a. name: n.a. surname: n.a. function: n.a. email: n.a. telephone: n.a. fax: n.a.	ES (VILADECANS, BARCELONA)	participant	700˙000.00
6	ALBERT-LUDWIGS-UNIVERSITAET FREIBURG ALBERT-LUDWIGS-UNIVERSITAET FREIBURG Organization address address: FAHNENBERGPLATZ city: FREIBURG postcode: 79098 website: www.uni-freiburg.de contact info title: n.a. name: n.a. surname: n.a. function: n.a. email: n.a. telephone: n.a. fax: n.a.	DE (FREIBURG)	participant	696˙166.00
7	HELMHOLTZ-ZENTRUM GEESTHACHT ZENTRUM FUR MATERIAL- UND KUSTENFORSCHUNG GMBH HELMHOLTZ-ZENTRUM GEESTHACHT ZENTRUM FUR MATERIAL- UND KUSTENFORSCHUNG GMBH Organization address address: MAX PLANCK STRASSE 1 city: GEESTHACHT postcode: 21502 website: www.gkss.de contact info title: n.a. name: n.a. surname: n.a. function: n.a. email: n.a. telephone: n.a. fax: n.a.	DE (GEESTHACHT)	participant	695˙150.00
8	TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY Organization address address: RAMAT AVIV city: TEL AVIV postcode: 69978 website: http://www.tau.ac.il/ contact info title: n.a. name: n.a. surname: n.a. function: n.a. email: n.a. telephone: n.a. fax: n.a.	IL (TEL AVIV)	participant	679˙791.00
9	GRAN SASSO SCIENCE INSTITUTE GRAN SASSO SCIENCE INSTITUTE Organization address address: VIA FRANCESCO CRISPI 7 city: L'AQUILA postcode: 67100 website: n.a. contact info title: n.a. name: n.a. surname: n.a. function: n.a. email: n.a. telephone: n.a. fax: n.a.	IT (L'AQUILA)	participant	600˙000.00

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Project objective

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.

Deliverables

List of deliverables.
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 (â€œCoDEâ€ 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.

Publications

List of publications.
year	authors and title	journal	last update
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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