Dear Colleagues, Robotics is currently running a Special Issue entitled "Soft Machines: Integrating Sensing, Actuation and Computation". Dr. Sina Naficy, Dr. Michael P.M. Dicker and Prof. Jonathan M. Rossiter are serving as Guest Editors for this issue. We think you could make an excellent contribution based on your expertise.
Soft machines based on well-integrated sensors and actuators can autonomously change their physical properties and interact with their surroundings in an organic manner. Such machines hold a great potential for biomedical devices, artificial limbs, and cooperative human assistance. Realising this vision requires novel soft, smart hybrid systems capable of sensing, computing, and actuation at micron-scale. Tightly integrating actuation, sensing, and computation into one single system can extend the functionality of traditional smart materials to truly programmable soft machines. This goal can be achieved by: 1) integrating sensing, actuation, and computation through novel smart materials, 2) adapting new fabrication techniques capable of creating hybrid, hierarchical structures.... For further reading, please follow the link to the Special Issue website at: http://www.mdpi.com/journal/robotics/special_issues/soft-machines. The submission deadline is 31 October 2018. You may send your manuscript now or up until the deadline. Submitted papers should not be under consideration for publication elsewhere. We also encourage authors to send a short abstract or tentative title to the Editorial Office in advance (robot...@mdpi.com). Since Volume 6, all published papers will be added in Scopus. The journal is also indexed in Web of Sciences (Thomson Reuters), as part of the ESCI database. Robotics is fully open access. Open access (unlimited and free access by readers) increases publicity and promotes more frequent citations, as indicated by several studies. Open access is supported by the authors and their institutes. An Article Processing Charge (APC) of CHF 350 currently applies to all accepted papers. You may be entitled to a discount if you have previously received a discount code or if your institute is participating in the MDPI Institutional Open Access Program (IOAP), for more information see: http://www.mdpi.com/about/ioap. For further details on the submission process, please see the instructions for authors at the journal website (http://www.mdpi.com/journal/robotics/instructions). We look forward to hearing from you. Best regards, Linda Wang Managing Editor Robotics (ISSN 2218-6581; http://www.mdpi.com/journal/robotics) is a journal published by MDPI AG, Basel, Switzerland. Robotics maintains rigorous peer-review and a rapid publication process. All articles are published with a CC BY 4.0 license. For more information on the CC BY license, please see: http://creativecommons.org To submit to the journal click here: http://susy.mdpi.com/user/manuscripts/upload?journal=robotics Unsubscribe: http://www.mdpi.com/unsub/unsubscribe/mail/Um9ib3RpY3NAbWRwaS5jb20=/8795b601147e7dee2ad869265e01dc6bf1bad227048e5558d1cfb6a3136b52d5 Manage your subscriptions: http://www.mdpi.com/unsub/managesubscriptions/mail/Um9ib3RpY3NAbWRwaS5jb20=/8795b601147e7dee2ad869265e01dc6bf1bad227048e5558d1cfb6a3136b52d5 MDPI—Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute www.mdpi.com St. Alban-Anlage 66 4052 Basel Switzerland Tel. +41 61 683 77 34 Fax +41 61 302 89 18 _______________________________________________ uai mailing list uai@ENGR.ORST.EDU https://secure.engr.oregonstate.edu/mailman/listinfo/uai
