Scope:
Soft actuators are devices based on polymer -based materials whose size or shape can change in respone to various stimuli such as thermic, electric, light-, magneto, and chemical ones. Soft actuators have many advantages as compared to conventional actuators and are expected to many emerged applicaitons such as various biomedical, MEMS, portable electronics, etc. This symposium will cover recent progress of research and development on materials, devices, control methods and applicaitons of soft actuators. This symposium will also cover the research and development of those of related topics including machanical sensors and energy harvesting using soft materials. This symposium wll also cover current researches of actuators based on bio-materials as future perspectives of artificial msucle technology.
