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Soft Robotics: Trends, Applications and Challenges

Part of the book series: Biosystems & Biorobotics ((BIOSYSROB,volume 17))

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Soft Robotics is now considered one of the most promising frontiers for robotics research and technological innovation. The enormous growth of this field in the last few years has been evidenced by a large increase in the number of publications, special issues in journals, focused sessions and workshops at international conferences, summer schools, competitions, EU funded projects, as well as new laboratories, companies and faculty appointments.

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  1. Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa, Italy

    Cecilia Laschi, Matteo Cianchetti & Laura Margheri

  2. University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England, UK

    Fumiya Iida

  3. University of Bristol, Bristol, UK

    Jonathan Rossiter

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  1. The BioRobotics Institute, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna The BioRobotics Institute, Pisa, Italy

    Cecilia Laschi

  2. Bristol Robotics Laboratory, University of Bristol Bristol Robotics Laboratory, Clifton, United Kingdom

    Jonathan Rossiter

  3. Department of Engineering, Cambridge University Department of Engineering, Cambridge, United Kingdom

    Fumiya Iida

  4. The BioRobotics Institute, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna The BioRobotics Institute, Pisa, Italy

    Matteo Cianchetti

  5. The BioRobotics Institute, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna The BioRobotics Institute, Pisa, Italy

    Laura Margheri

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Laschi, C., Iida, F., Rossiter, J., Cianchetti, M., Margheri, L. (2017). Introduction. In: Laschi, C., Rossiter, J., Iida, F., Cianchetti, M., Margheri, L. (eds) Soft Robotics: Trends, Applications and Challenges. Biosystems & Biorobotics, vol 17. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46460-2_1

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