Bio-Inspired Soft Robotics: Design, Fabrication and Applications

Dear Colleagues,

Soft robotics have become a hot research topic in recent years, relying on mimicking the locomotion mechanisms of soft bodies existing in nature to achieve a smooth and complex motion. Among those “soft bodies” that can move in complex environments, earthworms, snakes, larval insects, octopus, and eels present a large range of different strategies, developed over years, that we can draw inspiration from.

A lot of scientists and engineers have developed soft robotic systems, and the challenges wildly exist in the processes of design, fabrication, and applications due to the low stiffness, forming difficulty, system integration, etc. The purpose of this Special Issue is to collect the research progress of the design, fabrication, and applications for bio-inspired soft robotics.

Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

• Design and modeling of soft robotics;
• Sensing and control;
• Smart materials and structures in the application of soft robotics;
• Soft actuators;
• Computational methods for soft matter;
• Fabrication methods for soft robotics;
• Bio-inspired locomotion control.

Dr. Yong Zhong
Dr. Pei Jiang
Dr. Sun Yi
Guest Editors

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