Ordering your pizza and having it delivered in a few minutes by a drone? That could soon be routine. But what about having the drone itself for dessert, instead of sending it back? That would be entirely new technological territory with applications far beyond take-away meals. By combining food science and robotic science in a radically new way, the ROBOFOOD project will for the first time create robots that can be eaten and foods that behave like robots.

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Edible Electronics and Robofood: A Move Towards Sensors for Edible Robots and Robotic Food (IIT)

An Edible Bistable Tilt Sensor Enabling Autonomous Operation of a Partially Eatable Rolling Robot (EPFL, IIT)

Eat, Test, Digest: Towards Diagnostic Food for Next-Generation Gastrointestinal Tract Monitoring (IIT)

GelBat: An Edible Gelatin-Based Battery (UOB)

Biodegradable Humidity Actuators for Sustainable Soft Robotics using Deliquescent Hydrogels (UOB)

Design and manufacture of edible microfluidic logic gates (EPFL)

Collaborations:

The University of Electro-Communications (UEC), Tokyo

EPFL Integrative Food and Nutrition Center