Overview
Launching in 2014 - Now Available for Preorder!
Soft Robotics is an innovative peer-reviewed journal dedicated to the science and engineering of soft materials in mobile machines. Soft Robotics provides key coverage of the distinct field of research aimed at increasing the versatility of engineered devices with the key realization that material properties are themselves part of any natural motor system. The Journal breaks new ground as the first to answer the urgent need for research on robotic technology that can safely interact with living systems and function in complex natural or human-built environments.
Multidisciplinary in scope, Soft Robotics combines advances in biomedical engineering, biomechanics, mathematical modeling, biopolymer chemistry, computer science, and tissue engineering to provide comprehensive coverage of new approaches to constructing devices that can undergo dramatic changes in shape and size in order to adapt to various environments. This new technology delivers vital applications for a variety of purposes, including surgery, assistive healthcare devices, search and rescue in emergency situations, space instrument repair, mine detection, and more.
Soft Robotics coverage includes:
- Soft material creation, characterization, and modeling
- Flexible and transient electronics
- Soft actuators and sensors
- Control and simulation of highly deformable structures
- Biomechanics and control of soft animals and tissues
- Biohybrid devices and living machines
- Design and fabrication of conformable machines
Soft Robotics is under the editorial leadership of Editor-in-Chief Barry A. Trimmer, PhD, Henry Bromfield Pearson Professor of Natural Sciences and Director of the Neuromechanics and Biomimetic Devices Laboratory at Tufts University.
Audience: Biomedical engineers, biomechanical engineers, biopolymer chemists, computer scientists, electronic engineers, optical engineers, neuromechanical designers and engineers, and tissue engineers, among others
The views, opinions, findings, conclusions and recommendations set forth in any Journal article are solely those of the authors of those articles and do not necessarily reflect the views, policy or position of the Journal, its Publisher, its editorial staff or any affiliated Societies and should not be attributed to any of them.