Our SoftGrip team is continuing its efforts to spread the project mission like our latest journey to Pakistan. This time, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna participated in the 6th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Soft Robotics (RoboSoft) held between April 3-7 in Singapore. This year’s conference aimed to dive deeper into soft robotics for sustainable development in multiple fields, from healthcare and agriculture to industrialisation and cities.

The Institute of Communication and Computer Systems (ICCS) and its paper “Mushroom Detection and Three Dimensional Pose Estimation from Multi-View Point Clouds” was accepted and published by MDPI Sensors in March 2023.

“AI for Good” is the leading action-oriented, global, and inclusive United Nations platform on Artificial Intelligence, organised by the International Telecommunication Union in partnership with 40 UN sister agencies and co-convened with Switzerland.

The last month of autumn came with a series of soft robotics events from exhibitions, talks and interviews in the heart of South Asia. The broad spectrum of dissemination activities around soft robotics projects, including SoftGrip, took place between October 28th and November 10th in various universities in Pakistan. Representing the SoftGrip consortium, Radan Pathan, a PhD researcher from The BioRobotics Institute of Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, participated in all those events spreading the word about the project's mission, our soft robotic grippers and the tech advancements so far.

Our SoftGrip consortium gathered at the Teagasc facilities in Dublin between the 12-16th of December 2022. The reason was to conduct the latest data collection session. All delegations from the project partners came together to assemble the SoftGrip system and gather essential data to keep on working on its respective parts.

The time has come again for Teagasc’s Science Week, aka the Festival of Farming and Food, one of autumn's most interesting annual events. Organised in November, the event always includes a variety of activities, talks and exhibitions aiming to educate, inspire and excite children and adults.