Authored by a team of acknowledged experts, this book presents a multidisciplinary view of the state of the art in the field of actuators. The goal of the book

As demand has increased for new types of equipment that are more suited to the ever-evolving world of industry, demand for both new and traditional types of act

In the last two decades, a great effort has been directed towards the development of new smart materials actuators and their corresponding application devices a

This book is the second edition of Soft Actuators, originally published in 2014, with 12 chapters added to the first edition. The subject of this new edition is

Currently, many smart materials exhibit one or multifunctional capabilities that are being effectively exploited in various engineering applications, but these