Wearable and Soft Robotics for Rehabilitation Applications

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue, titled "Wearable and Soft Robotics for Rehabilitation Applications," focuses on recent advances in wearable and soft robotic technologies for physical rehabilitation. As the need grows for personalized and comfortable rehabilitation solutions, soft and wearable robotics offer a promising alternative to conventional rigid systems. These technologies show great potential in supporting motor recovery, providing movement assistance, and enabling rehabilitation at home for people with neurological conditions, injuries, or mobility limitations due to aging.

We invite papers on innovative designs of soft actuators, wearable systems, and lightweight exoskeletons that improve comfort, safety, and ease of use. Studies on control methods, such as systems using bio-signals including EMG and EEG, intent recognition, adaptive learning, and human–robot interaction, are highly welcome. Research may also include mechanisms with variable stiffness, compliant structures, smart materials, and energy-efficient actuation designed for rehabilitation.

This Special Issue encourages submissions presenting technical implementations and performance evaluations of wearable and soft robotic systems. Work that integrates emerging tools, such as AI-based personalization, digital twins, and telerehabilitation platforms, will also be considered. We particularly welcome contributions that demonstrate novel mechanical designs, control architectures, and system integration approaches for rehabilitation applications.

Our goal is to bring together research from different fields, including robotics, biomedical engineering, and user-centered design, to advance the development of intelligent, accessible, and responsive rehabilitation robots.

Prof. Dr. Ching-yi Wu
Guest Editor

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