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Contact #electrification happens almost always when two materials touch each other. ❓So does it also occur when insect feet 🪲 touch the surface of plant leaves🌱? We believe yes, here are our just published measurements: doi.org/10.1007/978-3-… Bioinspired Soft Robotics lab IIT Barbara Mazzolai

Association of ERC Grantees IIT @MostlyPhysics Hochschulrektorenkonferenz (HRK) And an amazing talk on biology-inspired robots by Barbara Mazzolai, Association of ERC Grantees (including robotic octopus arm for gripping tasks in confined spaces and many other incredible things). And discussion with Marc Cieslak. Watch the replay from 2’42’00’: youtube.com/watch?v=9OKeED…

A Soft Continuum Robotic Arm with a Climbing Plant-Inspired Adaptive Behavior for Minimal Sensing, Actuation, and Control Effort (Barbara Mazzolai and co-workers) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ai…

. #monitoraggioambientale e #Robotsoft: monitora la temperatura del terreno tramite segnale fluorescente. Il prototipo, biocompatibile e compostabile, è stato realizzato da Bioinspired Soft Robotics lab Barbara Mazzolai di #IIT, con il Leibniz Institut for New Materials (INM). opentalk.iit.it/il-primo-seme-…

The first #prototype of ecological fluorescent artificial #seed for monitoring soil temperature by using #drones. This has been accomplished by Barbara Mazzolai Bioinspired Soft Robotics lab IIT together Leibniz Institut for New Materials (INM) on Bioengineer.org European Innovation Council bit.ly/3QY3JOi

🇪🇺 Alessandro Gozzi (@gozziale.bsky.social) e Fabian Meder di #IIT vincono due finanziamenti da parte dell'European Research Council European Research Council (ERC), per comprendere la sinfonia dell’#attivitàcerebrale e l’#energiaelettrica delle #piante 🇪🇺 🙌🏻 #ERCCoG #ercgrantees ℹ️➡️ opentalk.iit.it/due-nuovi-erc-…

I am more than happy to receive an #ERCCoG!!! In the project EpiC I will study spontaneous charge formation on the world’s largest bio-air interface 🌱 and derive exciting opportunities for technology 🧪🤖. Stay tuned for #electrifying science to come! European Research Council (ERC) IIT

🌳Forests have a huge role in regulating the climate @EUatCOP28. ERC grantee Barbara Mazzolai IIT is using robotics to understand how a complex underground web of roots, fungi and bacteria nourishes trees and plants, and safeguard biodiversity👉 bit.ly/3NhFEke

This is how seahorses give birth!!

A plant-inspired robot named FiloBot successfully demonstrated a multitude of plant traits, including growing towards light and against gravity. Barbara Mazzolai Learn more in Science #Robotics: scim.ag/5Bj

Finally out! Congratulations to Kadri Ann-Valdur et al., for this wonderful work! ⁦Wiley STEM⁩ ⁦Bioinspired Soft Robotics lab⁩ ⁦livMatS⁩ ⁦University of Tartu⁩ ⁦Barbara Mazzolai⁩ ⁦IIT⁩ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…

Here, Barbara Mazzolai and co-workers developed this spider leg-inspired 🕷️ soft exoskeleton capable of delicate interactions with natural objects like pollen grains 🌻 and spiderwebs 🕸️. Read about it here 👉 ow.ly/ffW750R8YFB

We chatted with bio-roboticist Isabella Fiorello (Isabella Fiorello livMatS IIT ), co-creator of a plant-based biohybrid robot 🌾 She envisions it aiding reforestation on Earth... and possibly the Moon or Mars. 📰Read the ASN news article: ow.ly/eT4k50RSj2R

Why should #robots draw more inspiration from #plants? In one of her latest jobs, our Barbara Mazzolai IIT has developed a #biodegradable mini-bot that can be moved around by #wind and #rain and change shape according to #humidity. On Mint! bit.ly/3yZIN3T

I-Seed team during field testing in Wageningen #iSeed_project #workinprogress Wageningen U&R IIT European Innovation Council Stay in tuned

Happy to share that our recent work is featured as frontispiece cover on #AdvancedMaterials! livMatS Universität Freiburg IIT Barbara Mazzolai @AdvSciNews

#Day3 slowed down with breakout groups for our deep-down sessions featuring, #MPQC members Silvia Cometta Conde on ‘Quartz Crystal Microbalance as a Label-Free and Real-Time Monitoring Tool for the Study of Biological Interfaces’, Flavia Medeiros Savi on ‘Multimodal

#Day3 ended with a #keynote #talk by Riccardo Fontanelli from on ‘From Research to Market: Navigating the Intersection of Science, Innovation, and Technology Transfer. Exploring the Future of Research Infrastructures and the Depths of Innovation.’ #MPQCRetreat2024

#Day4 was kicked into gear with a #scientific #controversy debate on ‘Should we emulate structures from biology or from the processes that lead to them?’, we had #MPQC members Larisa Haupt arguing ‘Biology Argumentation’ and Martina Delbianco arguing ‘Processes Argumentation’. We

#MPQCRetreat2024 has officially come to an end, and we would like to take a moment to thank everyone who attended physically and virtually and a special #Thankyou to all of our invited guests for taking their time to enlighten us on many diverse topics! Bring on #MPQCRetreat2025!