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In the SUDOE space there are many strategic industries that deal with deformable products, such as food, clothing, toys, or leather goods. The automation of the processing of deformable products is very difficult and expensive, and therefore many tasks are performed manually by human operators. Performing these tasks by means of robots would improve competitiveness and working conditions. However, current industrial robotic solutions are not sufficiently adequate to handle this type of products. This project proposes to cover this lack of innovation in the manipulation of deformable objects by defining, designing and implementing functionalities that allow current robots to manipulate these objects. The cooperation of the partners will result in the development of a multi-robot system that will be transferred, as a prototype to demonstrate application in two paradigmatic industrial sectors in the SUDOE space: meat processing and shoe manufacturing.