Calls
Soft robotics reaches beyond science and applied technology; its community spans researchers and engineers as well as artists and educators. We encourage academic, educational, industrial, and artistic contributions to soft robotics through a range of presentation formats. For detailed formats and deadlines for each submission category at RoboSoft 2026, please see the respective pages. We look forward to your submissions.
Topics
The conference covers and welcomes submissions on (but not limited to) the following soft-robotics areas:
- Materials
- Soft materials and smart polymers: gels, textiles, composites, phase-change, self-healing
- Architected & programmable materials: metamaterials, auxetics, anisotropy
- Actuation
- fluidic, dielectric, shape-memory, light-/magnetically driven systems
- Sensing
- Embedded/flexible/stretchable electronics
- Haptics: tactile sensing, electronic skins, soft haptic interfaces
- Design & fabrication
- 3D/4D printing, soft–rigid integration, topology/shape optimization
- Inflatable/membrane and textile structures; origami/kirigami
- Variable-stiffness, jamming, compliant mechanisms, morphing structures
- Modularity, reconfigurability, self-assembly
- Continuum robots, underactuated design
- Autonomy
- Morphological computation; embodied intelligence
- Bio-inspired and biomimetic robotics
- Control
- Modeling, simulation, and system identification for compliant bodies
- Control, planning, and estimation for highly deformable systems, materials–morphology–control
- Learning-based methods and data-driven design/optimization
- Manipulation and Locomotion
- soft grippers and hands
- continuum arm, hyper-redundant manipulator
- terrestrial, subterranean, aerial, and underwater soft robots
- field applications
- Wearable/assistive soft robotics, human–robot interaction, safety, human-in-the-loop design
- Medical, surgical, and rehabilitation applications
- Benchmarking, evaluation metrics, reproducibility, and standards
- Art, design, outreach, and education in soft robotics
This list is illustrative rather than exhaustive; we encourage high-quality submissions on any topic that advances
