Perspectives on Intelligence in Soft Robotics by Vera Gesina Kortman, Barbara Mazzolai, Aimeé Sakes, Jovana Jovanova

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Contact Dynamic Behaviors of Magnetic Hydrogel Soft Robots by Yunian Shen, Yiming Zou

“…Magnetic hydrogel soft robots have shown great potential in various fields. …”
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The Design and Development of an Atraumatic Soft Robotic Surgical Retractor by Gavril Yong En Tan, Shaun Mahesh Buxani, Benjamin Wee Keong Ang, Chao Yu Chen, Raye Chen Hua Yeow, Hung Leng Kaan

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Soft Robotics: Biological Inspiration, State of the Art, and Future Research by Deepak Trivedi, Christopher D. Rahn, William M. Kier, Ian D. Walker

“…This paper discusses the novel capabilities of soft robots, describes examples from nature that provide biological inspiration, surveys the state of the art and outlines existing challenges in soft robot design, modelling, fabrication and control.…”
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Application and Analysis of an Ionic Liquid Gel in a Soft Robot by Chenghong Zhang, Bin He, Zhipeng Wang, Yanmin Zhou, Aiguo Ming

“…The experimental results show that the ILG soft robot has good driving performance, and the soft robot can grab a 105 mg object at an input voltage of 3.5 V.…”
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Continuum and Soft Robots in Minimally Invasive Surgery: A Systematic Review by Fahad Iqbal, Mojtaba Esfandiari, Golchehr Amirkhani, Hamidreza Hoshyarmanesh, Sanju Lama, Mahdi Tavakoli, Garnette R. Sutherland

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4D Printing of magneto- and thermo-responsive, adaptive and multimodal soft robots by Yuan Wang, Hanlin Zhu, Xin Ye, Yangwen Ge, Zhipan Jie, Yan Zhao, Chao Jiang

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Compliant Mechanism Soft Robot Design and Peristaltic Movement Optimization Using Random Search by L. A. Páramo-Carranza, A. Lopez-González, Juan C. Tejada

“…In this article, we use the concept of auxetic structures as inspiration for the design of a compliant mechanism that allows the integration of a soft robot whose movement is based on the peristaltic movements of invertebrates. …”
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A Star‐Nose‐Inspired Bionic Soft Robot for Nonvisual Spatial Detection and Reconstruction by Qiwei Shan, Yunqi Cao, Haozhen Chi, Shuyu Fan, Ziying Zhu, Dibo Hou

“…This article introduces a bionic soft robot inspired by the star‐nosed mole, which combines a pneumatic soft platform with a polydimethylsiloxane–polyethylene terephthalate cylindrical tactile sensor array based on bilayer single‐electrode triboelectric nanogenerators, mimicking the muscle tissue of the mole's nose and the cylindrical appendages surrounded by Eimer's organs. …”
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Influence of a Soft Robotic Suit on Metabolic Cost in Long-Distance Level and Inclined Walking by Shanhai Jin, Shijie Guo, Hashimoto Kazunobu, Xiaogang Xiong, Motoji Yamamoto

“…Toward this goal, this paper experimentally evaluates the influence of an authors’ soft robotic suit, which has been developed to assist hip flexion for energy-efficient walking of elderly persons in daily life activities, on metabolic cost reduction in the long-distance level and inclined walking. …”
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An interactive soft robotic hand-task training system with wireless task boards and daily objects on post-stroke rehabilitation by Xiangqian Shi, Chengyu Yang, Pak Chung Lee, Disheng Xie, Zhongping Ye, Zheng Li, Raymond Kai-yu Tong

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Design and Analysis of a Parallel Elastic Shoulder Joint for Humanoid Robotics Application by Sharafatdin Yessirkepov, Timur Umurzakov, Michele Folgheraiter

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A Computational Model of Hybrid Trunk-like Robots for Synergy Formation in Anticipation of Physical Interaction by Pietro Morasso

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Editorial: Latest trends in bio-inspired medical robotics: structural design, manufacturing, sensing, actuation and control by Yilun Sun, Houde Dai, Shuang Song, Angela Faragasso, Sara-Adela Abad Guaman

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Bringing Motor Imagery BCI systems outside of the laboratory into daily activities by Sonal Santosh Baberwal, Shirley Coyle

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Empirical Data-Driven Linear Model of a Swimming Robot Using the Complex Delay-Embedding DMD Technique by Mostafa Sayahkarajy, Hartmut Witte

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Gait Perception via Actual and Estimated Pneumatic Physical Reservoir Output by Junyi Shen, Tetsuro Miyazaki, Swaninda Ghosh, Toshihiro Kawase, Kenji Kawashima

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Using neuroevolution for designing soft medical devices by Hugo Alcaraz-Herrera, Michail-Antisthenis Tsompanas, Igor Balaz, Andrew Adamatzky

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Design and analysis of modular pneumatic soft crawling robots by YIN Hongfei, LÜ Yuedong, SONG Xiaojuan

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A Symmetrical Leech-Inspired Soft Crawling Robot Based on Gesture Control by Jiabiao Li, Ruiheng Liu, Tianyu Zhang, Jianbin Liu

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