Missions
Microrobots to support your innovation
We often provide our microrobots to private or academic laboratories looking to develop an innovative product that was not possible before due to the lack of hardware and software solutions at such a micro scale. Phigi's microrobots enable new possibilities in applications requiring swarm energy harvesting, distributed sensing, neighbor-to-neighbor communication, real-time digital-to-physical synchronization, and rapid assembly.
Collaborative design tool
Phigi's phygital matter is a physical material connected to a digital platform, that helps Decathlon transform the way designers and engineers collaborate together even remotely.
Rapid response to disasters
Advanced research in modular robotics to study reconfiguration algorithms for quick deployment in case of natural disasters.
Collective behavior for modular robots
Design, implementation, test and validation of algorithms for emergent collective behavior in systems of computationally limited individuals.
Reconfigurable furniture
Investigate beyond simulations control algorithms for reconfigurable systems and test if they would be suitable for reconfigurable furniture.
Swarm intelligence teaching platform
Design of new coordination algorithms at microscopic scales with large experiments testing. Train master and PhD students in distributed programming and modular robotics.
Multi-robots & humans collaboration
Experimention about emerging collaborative behaviors and interaction between multi-robot systems and human operators. Acheiving concrete instantiations of collaborative strategies traditionally validated only in simulation, due to scalability issues.
Dynamic 3D shape displays
Study of dynamic shape reconfiguration algorithms, including the addition of sensing, actuation, computation, and communication capabilities to create truly robotic materials for human to machine interaction.