Soft Robotics: Trends, Applications and Challenges: Proceedings of the Soft Robotics Week, April 25-30, 2016, Livorno, Italy (Hardcover, 2017)

Introduction.- Soft bionics hands with a sense of touch through an electronic skin.- Soft robotics mechanosensing.- Towards Behavior Design of a 3D-printed Soft Robotic Hand.- Soft robotics in underwater legged locomotion: from octopus-inspired solutions to running robots.- Underwater soft robotics, the benefit of body-shape variations in aquatic propulsion.- Animal Models for Non-pneumatic Soft Robots.- Plant-inspired growing robots.- Bio-inspired soft aerial robots: adaptive morphology for high-performance flightflight.- Soft robots in surgery.- Design Principles for Soft-Rigid Hybrid Manipulators.- Eating, drinking, living, dying and decaying soft robots.- Soft-robot modelling, simulation and control in real-time.- Evolutionary Developmental Soft Robotics: towards adaptive and intelligent soft machines following nature's approach to design.- Morphosis - taking morphological computation to the next level.