Actuators in 2025

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce this Special Issue, entitled “Actuators in 2025”, which is a part of the MDPI journal New Year Special Issue Series. This Special Issue will be a collection of high-quality reviews and original articles from Advisory Board Members, Editorial Board Members, Guest Editors, Topical Advisory Panel Members, and Reviewer Board Members, in addition to excellent editorials from EiCs and Section EiCs. This Special Issue collects papers regarding innovative ideas on actuators, including actuator principles, actuator materials, actuator mechanisms/designs, drive/control schemes, and their applications.

The submission deadline for this Special Issue is 31 December 2025. We kindly encourage all research groups to contribute up-to-date results from the latest developments in your respected laboratories. We look forward to your submissions.

Prof. Dr. Kenji Uchino
Guest Editor

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 250 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for assessment.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Actuators is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2400 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.