Bioinspired Robotics: Toward Softer, Smarter and Safer

Dear Colleagues,

The upcoming Special Issue on Bioinspired Robotics: Toward Softer, Smarter and Safer aims to explore the cutting-edge advancements in the field, focusing on the development of robots that draw inspiration from nature to achieve softer, smarter, and safer designs. Human–machine interactions can be improved with the use of soft intelligent sensing designed with flexible electronics and processing, and fully symbiotic with soft movement.

By drawing inspiration from the diverse and ingenious mechanisms found in the natural world, researchers are pushing the boundaries of traditional robotics to create more adaptable, intelligent, and secure machines. Contributions from all fields related to the advances in soft bio-robots are welcomed to this Special Issue, including particularly, but not limited to, the following:

• AI based applications for soft bio-robotics;
• Design of soft robots;
• Soft robots perception;
• Evaluation of embodied artificial intelligence;
• Biomimetic modelling;
• Biomechanics and locomotion;
• Bioinspired sensor technologies;
• Human-soft robot interaction;
• Soft bio-robotics for smart medical devices;
• Synthesis and development of new materials for soft robotics.

Prof. Dr. Adrian Burlacu
Guest Editor

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