ASR 2014 - “Advances on Soft Robotics” Workshop

The one day Workshop on “Advances on Soft Robotics” at RSS 2014 will gather experts across multiple fields in the scientific community of soft robotics. The workshop is organized to be part of the series of scientific events planned in the framework of RoboSoft Coordination Action (European Commission funded project under FP7-ICT-2013-C, Future and Emerging Technologies FET-Open scheme, http://www.robosoftca.eu/) aimed at bringing together researchers to enable the step-change in technologies and standards needed to advance soft robotics.
Invited talks, contributed paper talks and roundtable sessions will discuss the development of general theories, new and non-conventional approaches and techniques for most of the technologies involved in soft robotics, like smart soft materials, soft (muscle-like) actuators, soft sensors, modelling and control of soft robots, energy harvesting, design principles for soft robotics and morphological computation. Thanks to the high interdisciplinarity of the field of soft robotics the event will gather together researchers of different scientific background and potential stakeholders.
The organizers invite to submit an extended abstract (2-4 pages) for oral presentation. The abstract should be sent as a pdf file (maximum size 5 Mb) to laura.margheri-AT-sssup.it, in an email with the subject [RSS2014: Advances on Soft Robotics]. The abstracts will be reviewed by the program committee and ranked based on relevance to the topics, originality of method and technical quality, and clarity of presentation.