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Bioinspired materials and approaches for soft robotics

How far are we from artificial life? How far are we pushing biomimetics? In robotics, bioinspiration brings scenarios where soft robots acquire life-like abilities and better integrate themselves into our natural world. How do we make robots grow and learn, self-heal and self-feed, adapt and biodegrade? Interesting achievements in soft robotics show mechanisms for growing, by adding material to the robot body, materials for robot self-repair, and systems for energy production in the robot itself. Enormous challenges are still open though. They inspire investigations across disciplines and offer opportunities for research and for scientific and technological progress. Advances in materials, smart materials, and fabrication techniques play a key role in this direction.