As a disruptive innovation in robotics, Soft Robotics Technology integrates multiple disciplines, including biology, materials science, mechanical engineering, and control theory. Leveraging intelligent soft materials, it enables highly flexible, highly adaptable, and highly safe operations. It is now accelerating its transition from the laboratory to industrial deployment, unlocking enormous potential across fields such as intelligent manufacturing, the low-altitude economy, marine equipment, smart agriculture, Embodied Intelligence, and medical rehabilitation. As the development path for new quality productive forces becomes increasingly clear, industry demand continues to rise for high-quality technical and skilled talent with both engineering practice capabilities and innovative thinking.

The project plans to promote the establishment of approximately 30 technology R&D and transfer centers with significant practical results across the country within three years. Focusing on the urgent industry demand for high-quality skilled talent, it will carry out in-depth cooperation around typical applications of soft robotics in areas such as the construction of testing platforms, pilot-scale application testing, new product R&D, and proof of concept. Through these efforts, it aims to develop a series of replicable and scalable innovative models and typical cases of industry-education-research integration, and to build a soft robotics technology R&D and application ecosystem that serves local regions, extends nationwide, and supports the development of key industrial sectors.

Targeting the operational pain points of irregularly shaped and damage-prone items in industries such as 3C electronics, hardware processing, agricultural product sorting, and food processing and packaging, educational institutions and enterprises will jointly develop standardized process equipment and deployable solutions, strengthening the institutions' capacity to serve local industrial upgrading.