As part of the Horizon 2020 EU-funded SOMA (Soft-bodied intelligence for Manipulation) project, researchers from the Technische Universität Berlin (TUB), Università di Pisa, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V. (DLR), the Institute of Science and Technology Austria, Ocado Technology, and Disney Research Zurich have experimented with the robotic handling of easily damageable and unpredictably shaped objects such as fruit and vegetables.