Recent Advances in Soft Actuators, Robotics and Intelligence

Dear Colleagues,

With their soft bodies, soft actuators and robots are a natural safety solution for bridging the gap between machines and humans. Thanks to their flexibility and regulatory compliance, they can adapt to complex and dynamic environments. This gives them a significant advantage in the development of soft grips, wearables and haptic devices, artificial muscles and medical devices for several applications. Soft robotics has emerged to enable compliant robots to perform finer tasks, move in more complex environments and handle irregularly shaped objects. Although various soft technologies have been invented, the field is still young and faces many fundamental challenges.

Therefore, this Special Issue will focus on the latest advances in the field of soft technologies for robot realization. Here, we invite you to share your latest findings by submitting high-quality manuscripts that address the following challenges in the field:

• Soft actuators and pliable mechanisms in robotics;
• Artificial muscles;
• Material and structural design of soft actuators;
• Soft materials in soft actuators or robots;
• Modeling and simulation of sensing actuators;
• Model-based control of soft actuators or robots;
• Control methods for soft actuators or robots;
• Artificial intelligence for soft actuators or robots;
• Unprocessed synthetic soft actuators;
• Soft actuators in soft fixtures;
• Development of soft actuators for complex soft robots;
• Real-world applications of soft actuators.

Prof. Dr. Brian Byunghyun Kang
Guest Editor

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Actuators is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2400 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

• soft technologies
• soft robots
• cable-driven robots
• sensors
• soft actuators
• mechanisms
• control for soft robots
• modeling for soft robots
• AI algorithm for soft technologies