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Frontiers | Editorial: Current Advances in Soft Robotics: Best Papers From RoboSoft 2018

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Soft Robotics is a research field still in its infancy, but it has remarkable potential. Nevertheless, it still has to overcome a number of challenges before it can deliver off-the-shelf solutions. To address these challenges and form a community, the first IEEE international conference of Soft Robotics (RoboSoft 2018) was organized in Livorno (Italy) on 24-28 April 2018. This special issue includes 10 articles from this conference which have been picked by a committee. These papers highlight some of the challenges and new trends of the field.For example, Soft Robotics is at the frontier of bio-inspiration. It uses solutions found by natural evolution as a source of inspiration. Along this lines, Del Dottore et al. (2019) proposed a kinematic model for the tip motion of growing robots to navigate 3D environments while negotiating confined spaces and large cavities by adapting their body. However, bio-inspiration can go even beyond simply copying biological systems. Chen et al. (2019) introduced RUBIC (the Rolling, Untethered, Ballooning, Intelligent Cube) uses controlled inflation to role from one face of the cube to another, in any one of four planar directions. The result is a safe and predictable locomotion in complex environments. Another challenge is to design soft sensors and actuators. They must be flexible themselves. Furthermore, an integrated manufacturing approach is required to guarantee higher durability and repeatability of the system. Yirmibeşoglu et al. (20...

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