Roadmap on soft robotics: multifunctionality, adaptability and growth without borders

2022

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Soft robotics aims at creating systems with improved performance of movement and adaptability in unknown, challenging, environments and with higher level of safety during interactions with humans. This Roadmap on Soft Robotics covers selected aspects for the design of soft robots significantly linked to the area of multifunctional materials, as these are considered a fundamental component in the design of soft robots for an improvement of their peculiar abilities, such as morphing, adaptivity and growth. The roadmap includes different approaches for components and systems design, bioinspired materials, methodologies for building soft robots, strategies for the implementation and control of their functionalities and behaviour, and examples of soft-bodied systems showing abilities across different environments. For each covered topic, the author(s) describe the current status and research directions, current and future challenges, and perspective advances in science and technology to meet the challenges.

@article{2022IOP,
  title = {Roadmap on soft robotics: multifunctionality, adaptability and growth without borders},
  author = {Mazzolai, B and Carpi, F and Suzumori, K and Cianchetti, M and Speck, T and Smoukov, S K and Burgert, I and Keplinger, T and Siqueira, G and Vanneste, F and Goury, O and Duriez, C and Nanayakkara, T and Vanderborght, B and Brancart, J and Terryn, S and Rich, S and Liu, R and Fukuda, K and Someya, T and Calisti, M and Laschi, C and Sun, W and Wang, G and Wen, L and Baines, R and Patiballa, S K and Kramer, R and Rus, D and Fischer, P and Simmel, F and Lendlein, A},
  month = jan,
  year = {2022},
  doi = {https://doi.org/10.1088/2399-7532/ac4c95},
  url = {https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/2399-7532/ac4c95/meta},
  month_numeric = {1}
}