FlowIO, a modular pneumatics development platform for soft robotics and programmable materials, has been selected as a winner of the iF DESIGN TALENT AWARD 2021. 

In its statement on the project, the jury said, "FlowIO represents a brilliantly thought-out system for creating pneumatic prototypes. The factual and functional design supports the user down to the last detail. Industrial design at its best." 

The project team, led by Responsive Environments PhD student Ali Shtarbanov with collaborators Hye Jun Youn (Harvard University) and Ozgun Kilic Afsar (KTH Royal Institute of Technology and the Tangible Media research group), says, "Our mission is to make innovation and prototyping seamless and accessible to everyone—by creating new development platforms like FlowIO, which we have now distributed to universities in over 10 countries. We are grateful to the iF DESIGN TALENT AWARD jury for recognizing FlowIO, which will greatly help us advance our cause and empower even more people to innovate and realize their creative projects with FlowIO."