Soft Robotics
Soft Robotics (SoRo) is the leading robotics journal, publishing world-class peer-reviewed research on the emerging technologies and developments of soft and deformable robots, including coverage of flexible electronics, materials science, computer science, and biomechanics. 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, SoRo 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 (SoRo) 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
SoRo 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
Watch SoRo Editor-in-Chief Barry Trimmer describe soft material robotics on Science Nation:
| Barry Trimmer, PhD | Tufts University, Medford, MA, USA |
| Barbara Mazzolai, PhD | Italian Institute of Technology, Genoa, Italy |
| Matteo Cianchetti, PhD | Scuola Superiore Sant Anna, Dunnell, Italy |
| Antonio Desimone, PhD | Sissa-Intl School For Advanced Studies, Trieste, Italy |
| Guo-Ying Gu, PhD | Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China |
| Helmut Hauser, PhD | University Walk, Bristol, United Kingdom |
| Shinichi Hirai, PhD | Ritsumeikan University, Shiga, Japan |
| Akio Ishiguro, PhD | Tohoku University, Tohoku, Japan |
| Seung Hwan Ko, PhD | Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea |
| Perla Maiolino, BENG, DPHIL, MENG | University of Oxford, New Rochelle, NY, USA |
| Arianna Menciassi, PhD | Biorobotics Institute, Pontedera Pisa, Italy |
| Kohei Nakajima, PhD | University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan |
| Yong-Lae Park, PhD | Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea |
| Federico Renda, BSC, MSC, PhD | Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates |
| Li Wen, PhD | Beihang University, Beijing, China |
| Raye C.H. Yeow, PhD | National University Of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore |
| Benoit Meyrieux | Richmond, VA, USA |
| Iain A Anderson | University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand |
| David Barrett, PhD | Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering, Needham, MA, USA |
| Hillel J Chiel, PhD | Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA |
| Nikolaus Correll | University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, USA |
| Josie A E Hughes, BA, MA, MENG, MSC, PhD | EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland |
| Fumiya Iida, PhD | University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom |
| Kaushik Jayaram, PhD | University Of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, USA |
| Kyu Jin Cho, PhD | Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea |
| Maarja Kruusmaa, PhD | Tallinn University of Technology, Tallinn, Estonia |
| George V Lauder, PhD | Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA |
| Hod Lipson, PhD | Columbia University, New York, NY, USA |
| John H Long, JR, MD | Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, USA |
| Nanshu Lu, PhD | University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA |
| Arianna Menciassi, PhD | Biorobotics Institute, Pontedera Pisa, Italy |
| Keisuke Morishima, PhD | Osaka University, Suita, Japan |
| Rahim Mutlu, PhD | Southern Cross University, Lismore, Australia |
| Cagdas D Onal, PhD | Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA, USA |
| Qibing Pei, PhD | University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA |
| Roger D Quinn, PhD | Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA |
| John A Rogers, PhD | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA |
| Jonathan Rossiter, MD | University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom |
| Hirotaka Sato, PhD | Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore |
| Mohsen Shahinpoor, PhD | University of Maine, Orono, ME, USA |
| Robert Shepherd | Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA |
| Koichi Suzumori | Tokyo Institute of Technology, Ookayama Meguro, Japan |
| Michael T Tolley | Uc San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA |
| Ian D Walker, PhD | Clemson University, Clemson, SC, USA |
| Kevin Warwick, DSC | University of Reading, Reading, United Kingdom |
| Alon Wolf, PhD | Technion Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel |