Introduction to Advanced Soft Robotics is an introductory textbook on soft body robotics. The content is designed to enable readers to better understand soft body robotics. Starting with an introduction to the subject, contents explain fundamental concepts such as perception and sensing, fabrication techniques and material design. These introductory chapters demonstrate the design concept and related design structures of soft robots from multiple perspectives, which can provide considerable design references for robotics learners and enthusiasts. Next, the book explains modeling and control for soft robotics and the applications. Key features of this book include easy-to-understand language and format, simple illustrations and a balanced overview of the subject (including a section on challenges and future prospects for soft robotics), and scientific references.

Soft robotics is a recent exciting trend of robotics, taking the challenge of using soft materials and deformable structures for building robots, with high potential for impact in science and in applications Given the young and fast growing area and the lively interdisciplinary community that grew around soft robotics, the RoboSoft international conference aims at presenting recent progresses in this field, for discussing new science, new technologies and new opportunities for applications

This book gathers the Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Robot Intelligence Technology and Applications (RITA 2020). The areas covered include: Instrumentation and Control, Automation, Autonomous Systems, Biomechatronics and Rehabilitation Engineering, Intelligent Systems, Machine Learning, Mobile Robotics, Social Robotics and Humanoid Robotics, Sensors and Actuators, and Machine Vision, as well as Signal and Image Processing. As a valuable asset, the book offers researchers and practitioners a timely overview of the latest advances in robot intelligence technology and its applications.

The volume LNAI 13546 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 23rd Annual Conference Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems, TAROS 2022, held in Culham, UK, in September 2022. The 14 full papers and 10 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 38 submissions. Organized in the topical sections "Algorithms" and "Systems", they discuss significant findings and advances in the following areas: Robotic Grippers and Manipulation; Soft Robotics, Sensing and Mobile Robots; Robotic Learning, Mapping and Planning; Robotic Systems and Applications.

This book is the volume of the proceedings for the 17th Edition of ISER. The goal of ISER (International Symposium on Experimental Robotics) symposia is to provide a single-track forum on the current developments and new directions of experimental robotics. The series has traditionally attracted a wide readership of researchers and practitioners interested to the advances and innovations of robotics technology. The 54 contributions cover a wide range of topics in robotics and are organized in 9 chapters: aerial robots, design and prototyping, field robotics, human‒robot interaction, machine learning, mapping and localization, multi-robots, perception, planning and control. Experimental validation of algorithms, concepts, or techniques is the common thread running through this large research collection. Chapter “A New Conversion Method to Evaluate the Hazard Potential of Collaborative Robots in Free Collisions” is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.