Bio-Inspired Soft Robotics: Design, Fabrication and Applications: 2nd Edition
A special issue of Biomimetics (ISSN 2313-7673). This special issue belongs to the section "Locomotion and Bioinspired Robotics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 December 2025 | Viewed by 28
Special Issue Editors
Interests: bioinspired robots; soft robotics
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: soft robotics
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: soft robotics; bio-inspired robotics; smart structures
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Soft robotics have become a hot research topic in recent years, mimicking the locomotion mechanisms of soft bodies existing in nature to achieve a smooth and complex motion. Among the “soft bodies” that can move in complex environments, earthworms, snakes, larval insects, octopus, and eels present a large range of different strategies that, developed over years, we can draw inspiration from.
Many scientists and engineers have developed soft robotic systems, and challenges still wildly exist in the processes of design, fabrication, and applications due to low stiffness, forming difficulty, system integration, etc. This Special Issue aims to collect research on the progress of the design, fabrication, and applications of bio-inspired soft robotics.
Topics of interest include (but are not limited to) the following:
- Design and modeling of soft robotics;
- Sensing and control;
- Smart materials and structures in the application of soft robotics;
- Soft actuators;
- Computational methods for soft matter;
- Fabrication methods for soft robotics;
- Bio-inspired locomotion control;
- Embodied intelligence for soft robots.
Dr. Yong Zhong
Dr. Pei Jiang
Dr. Yunquan Li
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- bioinspired robots
- soft robotics
- soft actuators
- soft matter
- bio-inspired locomotion control
- fabrication
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