8th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Soft Robotics

The 8th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Soft Robotics (RoboSoft 2025) is the premier venue dedicated to robots and robotic components built from compliant, deformable materials that can safely interact with humans and navigate unstructured environments. Research spans soft actuators, pneumatic and hydraulic artificial muscles, bio-inspired locomotion, soft grippers for delicate manipulation, embedded sensing in soft bodies, and the unique computational challenges of controlling systems with effectively infinite degrees of freedom.

Soft robotics matters because rigid robots are poorly matched to many real-world tasks — surgery, prosthetics, search and rescue, and physical human assistance all benefit from systems that can deform and adapt. RoboSoft attracts roboticists, materials scientists, mechanical engineers, and biomedical engineers, and it has become the definitive gathering for a research community that is redefining what a robot can be.