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SOMIRO: New H2020 project granted!

Persys Group has been awarded funding from the European Union, for the project SOMIRO:  “Soft Milli-robots”.  The SOMIRO project will develop a flat-worm-inspired mm-scale swimming robot with month-long energy autonomy, local intelligence, and ability to continuously generate data and optically communicate to reduce farming’s environmental impact in terms of carbon footprint, over fertilization, pesticide use, and overfeeding.  The project is led at IMDEA Networks by Domenico Giustiniano, started on January 1st 2021, and will have a duration of 36 months.

European Researchers’ Night 2020

The team, made up of Domenico Giustiniano (Research Associate Professor), Borja Genovés Guzmán (Post-doc Researcher) and Muhammad Sarmad Shahab Mir (PhD Student) from IMDEA Networks, participated in European Researchers’ Night on 27 November, an event promoted by the Regional Ministry of Science, Universities and Innovation and coordinated by the madri+d Foundation (funded by the European Union within its research and innovation programme, Horizon 2020).

“Green light for the Earth”: IMDEA Networks at Science and Innovation Week 2020

Battery disposal causes harm to the environment, and, as the number of IoT grows, replacing the battery of each IoT device on earth is not viable anymore. The scientific community is recently seeking to design networks that don’t need any battery to communicate as a solution to this problem. IMDEA Networks is actively engaged in this area, and the team consisting of Domenico Giustiniano (Research Associate Professor), Borja Genovés Guzmán (Post-doc Researcher) and Muhammad Sarmad Shahab Mir (PhD Student) from IMDEA Networks, together with Ambuj Varshney (Post-doc Researcher) from University of California, Berkeley, have designed the first prototype of battery-free IoT device that leverages the advantages of two cutting-edge technologies: LiFi and RF backscatter. The researchers of IMDEA Networks Institute have presented the system in the Week of Science and Innovation 2020 with an event titled “Green Light for the Earth”.