Emerging Trends in Soft Robotics and Bioinspired Technologies
A special issue of Micromachines (ISSN 2072-666X). This special issue belongs to the section "E：Engineering and Technology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 June 2026 | Viewed by 795
Special Issue Editor
Interests: microfabrication; polymers; lab-on-a-chip; MEMS; biomimetic adhesives; composites; additive manufacturing
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Dear Colleagues,
There has been an explosion of interest in soft robotics over the past 15 years as multiple groups take inspiration from natural materials and living organisms for robotics applications. In recent years, electrically driven soft robotics, soft robotics with mechanical or fluidic logic, sustainable soft robotics, and biohybrid robotics have become increasingly common. New methods to additively manufacture, or integrate multiple materials in a single process, have broadened the type of systems developed by the field. There is also a higher emphasis on novel applications and accessibility of research via easily reproduced or low-cost manufacturing processes. This special issue will highlight and examine some of the emerging themes in soft and bioinspired technologies with a focus on microscale or microfabrication aspects. Some non-exclusive themes of interest include multi-material integration, embodied intelligence/microfluidic logic, cost reduction (processes or materials), additive manufacturing of soft robotics, bio-hybrid robots, as well as shape and stiffness tunable materials for soft robotics. We kindly invite researchers of all career stages to submit articles that highlight some of these emerging topics for publication in this Special Issue of Micromachines.
Prof. Dr. Dan Sameoto
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- soft robotics
- additive manufacturing
- bio-hybrid robotics
- embodied intelligence
- artificial muscles
- untethered operation
- bioinspired
- composites
- democratization of research
- sustainability
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