Advances in Autonomous Liquid Robotics

Dear Colleagues,

Quite recently, research from different fields of science, including philosophy, biology, condensed matter physics, chemistry, nanotechnology, robotics, computer science, and electrochemistry, started to converge around the concept of liquid state autonomous systems. Organic, inorganic, or hybrid devices in the liquid state kept in a fixed volume by surface tension or by a confining membrane could be used as biologically inspired autonomous robotic systems.

This Special Issue focuses on the advancements toward the realization of such a system, enabling tremendous advantages over existing technologies, in particular for what concerns information processing and storage, extreme environment/foault tolerance, marginal energy consumption, exploration of remote areas such as planetary environments, post-disaster search and rescue in ground applications, and compliant wearable devices, and even the medical field for in vivo applications.

The latest experiments, simulations, theoretical approaches, and visions will be shared through this Special Issue. I sincerely invite all researchers and investigators from any country to contribute their original research, a review, or an article to this Special Issue.

Prof. Dr. Alessandro Chiolerio
Guest Editor

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