New Trends of 3D Printed Soft Robotics
A special issue of Actuators (ISSN 2076-0825). This special issue belongs to the section "Actuators for Robotics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 November 2021) | Viewed by 1249
Special Issue Editors
Interests: soft robotics; biomechatronics; wearable technologies; 3D printing
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: Soft Robotics; Soft Actuators; Soft Sensors; Soft Grippers and Prostheses; Soft Wearable Robots; Soft Human-Machine Interfaces
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Soft robotics has gained enormous momentum in the last decade, addressing great challenges across multiple disciplines, including material science, all engineering disciplines including biomedical, computer science, and social sciences. Such grand challenges find potential solutions in extraordinary applications of soft robots where additive manufacturing (aka 3D printing) has created further possibilities to realize these technological means in various directions:
- Multi-material structures including grading material properties such as stiffness and texture,
- Monolithic robots,
- Bio-inspired robots,
- Conformal grippers and
- Wearable technologies including 3D printed sensors and actuators, stretchable electronics.
Soft robotic wearables with their adaptability, conformability, dexterity, and extraordinary compliance can safely interact with humans, lowering stress concentration such as in soft haptic applications. In particular, 3D printing gives researchers the ability to overcome the limitations of conventional manufacturing to produce a soft robot as a monolithic body consolidating robotic parts while creating sophisticated shapes with ease.
This Special Issue encourages the submission of contributions from all fields of soft robotics utilizing 3D printing in any stage of their development.
Dr. Rahim Mutlu
Guest Editor
Dr. Charbel Tawk
Co-Guest Editor
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Keywords
- soft robotics
- 3D printing
- bio-inspired
- wearables
- 3D printed electronics
- soft haptics
- monolithic
- conformal grippers
- sensors
- actuators
