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The MAPWORMS project at the 5th International Congress on Applied Ichthyology, Oceanography, and Aquatic Environment (HydroMedit 2024).

We’re thrilled to share the success of the recent workshop on “Fluid Driven Soft Actuators: Challenges and Opportunities.” held at the Robosoft conference.

Our Annual General Meeting, held in Crete, Greece (April 8 and 9, 2024), commenced with great success.

The MAPWORMS project made waves by landing the cover picture spot on the esteemed Facebook group “Oceanitalians”.

The workshop, “Translational Challenges of Soft Robotics in Medical Applications,” organized within the MAPWORMS project at the European Robotics Forum (ERF) 2024.

The MAPWORMS project was showcased at the INNODAYS innovation exhibition held from November 24th to 26th, 2023, organized by the Region of Crete.

Three innovations developed in MAPWORMS project are now part of The EU Innovation Radar Platform: the European Commission initiative to identify high-potential innovations and innovators in EU-funded research and projects.

SOMIRO is a Horizon 2020-funded project working on the development of energy-autonomous swimming milli-robots for reducing the environmental impact of farming. In the framework of the project, a 4-days school on “Miniaturized and soft robots” was organized and on Wednesday 11 October, Arianna Menciassi and Linda Paternò presented the MAPWORMS project.

On Friday 29 September, the BRIGHT-NIGHT was back in Tuscany: the European Night of Researchers, i.e., the event of the European Community born in 2005 with the aim to disseminate science results and their impact on citizens’ daily lives in a fun and inspiring way. For the MAPWORMS team, it was an amazing opportunity to spread project results and objectives with colleagues, students, and people of all ages!

The 13th of May 2022: save the date because this is when the kick-off meeting took place and the 6 partners of the project reunited to celebrate the birth of MAPWORMS. We are talking about a transitional consortium of 6 partners from 6 different EU countries, operating under the European Union’s Horizon research and innovation program with a high level of specialization in robotics and technology.