Innovations in Soft Robotics: Enhancing Safety, Performance, and Dexterity
A special issue of Machines (ISSN 2075-1702). This special issue belongs to the section "Robotics, Mechatronics and Intelligent Machines".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 November 2025 | Viewed by 63
Special Issue Editors
Interests: solid mechanics; soft materials; structural dynamics; aerospace engineering; soft robotics; vibration; orbital mechanics; wearable sensing
Interests: materials science; bioelectronics; soft robotics to develop innovative biomedical devices
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Dear Colleagues,
Soft robotics is an emerging field that leverages compliant materials, bio-inspired designs, and flexible actuation to create systems capable of safe and adaptive interactions with complex, dynamic environments. Unlike traditional rigid robots, soft robots are engineered with materials that mimic the elasticity of natural organisms, enabling them to conform, adapt, and interact delicately with both objects and humans. This multidisciplinary research area combines advances in materials science, organic chemistry, mechanics, control theory, and manufacturing technologies to overcome challenges in dexterity and operational safety. As applications expand—from biomedical devices and wearable assistive technologies to search-and-rescue operations and delicate manufacturing—the need for innovations that improve performance while ensuring user safety becomes increasingly critical.
We are pleased to invite you to contribute to our Special Issue, “Innovations in Soft Robotics: Enhancing Safety, Performance, and Dexterity”.
The Special Issue aims to explore the latest innovations in soft robotics to enhance operational safety, improve performance metrics, and advance dexterity in practical applications.
In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following:
- Soft robotic materials and their fabrication techniques;
- Mechanics of soft materials;
- Actuation, control and sensing strategies for soft robots;
- Human–soft robot interaction;
- New applications of soft robotics.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Zixiao Liu
Dr. Wen Hong
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- soft robotics
- human–soft robot interaction
- actuation
- soft materials
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