Smart Material-Based Micromechatronics in Soft Robotics

Dear Colleagues,

Soft robotics has become an intensive research area focusing on intelligent structures and mechanisms with highly integrated actuation and sensing functionalities. As one of the key technologies in the development of soft robotics, the community is actively looking for smart, stimuli-responsive materials that enable soft robotics to interact with unconstructed, unpredictable environments, and thus provide more comprehensive operational flexibilities than traditional rigid-body robotics.

This Special Issue is dedicated to understanding the interaction between smart materials and subsystems of soft robotics to provide a state-of-the-art pathway to achieve self-regulation, advanced manipulation, structural health monitoring, and integrated manufacturing of soft robotics. Invited and submitted manuscripts are especially welcome to investigate the cooperation and programming of light-, electrical- and thermal-responsive smart materials and metamaterials that enable embedded sensing, self-healing, self-assembly, and compliant self-actuation properties of soft robotic systems. Research on the fabrication and integration of miniaturized smart materials to enable MEMS and soft robotic electronics with integrated operational functionalities for practical applications are also strongly encouraged.

We look forward to receiving your contributions! 

Prof. Dr. Seung-Bok Choi
Guest Editor

Dr. Ziliang Kang
Dr. Fangzhou Xia
Guest Editor Assistants

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