A look inside IEEE RAM December 2020 Issue- Design Optimization of Soft Robots

 

We are pleased to offer you the December 2020 issue of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine!

Underwater Mobile Manipulation: A Soft Arm on a Benthic Legged Robot	Jiaqi Liu;Saverio Iacoponi;Cecilia Laschi;Li Wen;Marcello Calisti
Design Optimization of Soft Robots: A Review of the State of the Art	Feifei Chen;Michael Yu Wang
Room Temperature Self-Healing in Soft Pneumatic Robotics: Autonomous Self-Healing in a Diels-Alder Polymer Network	Seppe Terryn;Joost Brancart;Ellen Roels;Guy Van Assche;Bram Vanderborght
Design and Optimization of a Dextrous Robotic Finger: Incorporating a Sliding, Rotating, and Soft-Bending Mechanism While Maximizing Dexterity and Minimizing Dimensions	Amir Pagoli;Frederic Chapelle;Juan-Antonio Corrales-Ramon;Youcef Mezouar;Yuri Lapusta
Expanding Pouch Motor Patterns for Programmable Soft Bending Actuation: Enabling Soft Robotic System Adaptations	Haneol Lee;Namsoo Oh;Hugo Rodrigue
Looking Back and Looking Forward	Bram Vanderborght

 A special thanks to Bram Vanderborght, editor-in-chief (EIC) of IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine (RAM) as his term ends with this issue.Thank you for all of your hard work and contributions to IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine over the past five years!