Soft robots have emerged in recent years, their main difference from traditional rigid robots being that they are inherently safer, more flexible and robust in use, making them easier to implement for human interaction. Unfortunately, soft robots also face difficulties, such as the fact that existing robot technologies are too bulky to be embedded or that they have very low power efficiency. The EU-funded FlowBot project will work to overcome these issues by developing soft fluidic circuits that can effectively power and control soft robots and their behaviour. The project will achieve this by implementing novel experimental standards as well as new computational approaches and design principles.