SubsidieMeestersSelf HealINg soft materials for susTainable prOducts
The SHINTO project aims to revolutionize soft robotics with self-healing components, enhancing reliability and sustainability while targeting commercial viability and market expansion.
Projectdetails
Introduction
The SHINTO project aims to disrupt the soft robotics market by creating a new market for self-healing structural components, introducing autonomous damage detection and healing in intelligent soft robots.
Current Market Landscape
The current field is driven by a high adoption of soft grippers that ensure safe operation for collaborative robots in manufacturing and delicate manipulation in agrifood and warehousing. However, these expensive and mostly non-recyclable soft robots have limited lifetimes due to their vulnerability to damage.
Technological Innovations
In symbiosis, VUB-research groups FYSC and Brubotics have been building soft robots out of self-healing materials that fully recover functional material properties and resulting performances after healing incurred damage. This extends the robots' service lifetime and raises their reliability and sustainability, which in combination with their inherent recyclability contributes to economic benefits and the EU Green Deal.
Project Goals
In SHINTO, technological breakthroughs will mature beyond lab demonstrators over pilot scale towards commercial viability through synergistic advances in:
- (Patented) self-healing polymers
- Manufacturing
- Application validation
- Business development
Team Composition
The team combines profound knowledge of materials and robotics scientists with business experts to establish a new deep tech company, marketing next-generation self-healing grippers as semi-finished goods.
Market Strategy
The beach-head strategy targets existing soft robotics markets based on confirmed product-market fits. Existing feedback loops with key industrial partners, field tests, and life cycle assessment allow for co-creating the required quality and Technology Readiness Level (TRL) for business transition while limiting business risk to a niche market.
Continuous Market Analysis
Parallel, continuous market analysis enables updating/expanding requirements and extending to broader (non-)robotic markets. The soft robotics market is expected to grow at 40% per year to $6.3 billion by 2027, while market fits beyond this niche are identified, e.g., the tire market at $174 billion in 2028.
Financiële details & Tijdlijn
Financiële details
| Subsidiebedrag | € 2.488.500 |
| Totale projectbegroting | € 2.488.500 |
Tijdlijn
| Startdatum | 1-10-2022 |
| Einddatum | 30-9-2025 |
| Subsidiejaar | 2022 |
Partners & Locaties
Projectpartners
- VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSELpenvoerder
Land(en)
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