Smart Materials for Soft Robotics and Sensors
A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Sensor Materials".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 June 2026 | Viewed by 7
Special Issue Editors
Interests: soft robots for health applications
Interests: soft and continuum medical robotic systems
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Over the past few decades, smart soft materials have revolutionized the field of electronics by enabling the creation of flexible/stretchable, conformable, lightweight, and multifunctional sensors for a wide range of applications in wearable technologies and soft robotics.
Empowering soft robots and wearable devices with high resolution, high sensitivity, and rapid response sensing capabilities is crucial for their advancement in numerous real-world applications, including, but not limited to, portable wearables in mobile healthcare and sport engineering, a broad range of human–machine interfaces, advanced rehabilitation and assistive devices, medical implants, and smart soft robots for minimally invasive surgery, drug delivery, remote exploration, and environmental monitoring.
In order to fully exploit the potential of smart materials for such applications, they must be compatible with effective, efficient, agile, low-cost, and sustainable techniques for their processing and integration into flexible/stretchable devices. For this reason, the development of new engineered smart materials, combined with advanced manufacturing techniques, has become an urgent topic.
This Special Issue is addressed to all kinds of smart soft material-based sensors that are currently being used for wearable technologies and soft robotics. We welcome original research contributions and state-of-the-art reviews that highlight recent advancements and novel applications and promote further research in this area.
Dr. Silvia Taccola
Dr. James H. Chandler
Guest Editors
Dr. Arianna Mazzotta
Guest Editor Assistant
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Keywords
- smart materials
- multifunctional materials
- smart material processing
- smart materials synthesis
- smart sensors
- wearable sensors
- soft sensors
- flexible electronics
- conformable electronics
- stretchable electronics
- soft robotic sensing
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