The Power of Soft Robotics
Our mission
Soft robotics is a recently emerged field of robotics that has grown substantially in the last years. It extends the conventional robot design approach by using a wider range of new, often soft, materials including silicon, smart materials, polymers, hydrogels, and many others. The result is a highly interdisciplinary approach to robotic design with a substantial potential to provide novel robotic solutions for a wide range of sectors, including, agriculture, health, industry, entertainment, and many others. The UK is at the forefront of this new approach and is home to a number of world-leading research groups. To strengthen this position and to enable a maturation of this field this Strategic Task Group aims to achieve the following three goals.
To establish an industry advisory club to facilitate a transfer to real-world applications
To identify grand challenges, to develop benchmark tests, and to establish a recurrent research competition
To widen the research community and attract non-roboticists to the field
Soft Robotics for Industry
This free workshop is specifically geared towards participants from industry, who want to learn more about the potential of the field for their industrial sector. It consists of introductionary talks, presentations of successful industry collaborations, Q&A and discussion panels.
Industry Engagement Event
In order to make Soft Robotics a true success we need to make sure it can solve real-world problems. We need to understand industry needs and challenges, identify where Soft Robotics can provide novel solutions and how to translate fundamental results in soft robotics into real-world application.
Join us at our industry engagement event!