The SMART Innovative Training Network is a joint venture between academia and industry, providing scientific and personal development of young researchers in the multidisciplinary fields of soft robotics and smart materials. SMART will realize the technologically and scientifically ambitious breakthroughs to exploit smart, stimuli-responsive material systems for actuation, sensing and self-healing capabilities for intelligent soft devices. The use of this new generation materials in soft robots, will allow these systems to interact with dynamic and unknown environments in an intelligent fashion, to avert catastrophic failure and re-establish structural integrity and operational functionality.
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement No 860108.