**Preface to "Robotic Platforms for Assistance to People with Disabilities"**

People with congenital and/or acquired disabilities form a significant number of dependents in the current society. These patients lack enough autonomy to live an independent life. Robotic platforms to help people with disabilities are being developed with the aim of providing both rehabilitation treatment and assistance to improve their quality of life and are mainly applied to people who have mobility problems or some type of functional disability. The impact and capacity of assistance of collaborative robotics in this area has continuously improved the healthcare world in terms of chronic disease prevention, saving time for professionals, and lower public health spending. In this sense, something that is important to emphasize in these robotic assistance environments is human–robot interaction. This topic demands sensitive and intelligent robotics platforms that are equipped with complex sensory systems, high handling functionalities, safe control strategies, and intelligent computer vision algorithms.

This Special Issue of *Applied Sciences*, "Robotic Platforms for Assistance to People with Disabilities", aims to cover recent advances in the field of robotic platforms to assist disabled people in daily or clinical environments. Papers address innovative solutions in this field, including affordable assistive robotics devices, new techniques in the control/computer vision for intelligent and safe human–robot interaction, exoskeletons or exosuits to assist people with mobility problems, and advances in mobile manipulators for assistive tasks.

> **Carlos A. Jara, Juan A. Corrales** *Editors*
