Soft Robotics aims at providing state of art on research and potential approaches of soft robotics. It particularly challenges the traditional thinking of engineers, as the confluence of technologies, ranging from new materials, sensors, actuators and production techniques to new design tools, will make it possible to create new systems whose structures are almost completely made of soft materials, which bring about entirely new functions and behaviors, similar in many ways to natural systems. This is a huge research topic, "hot" and with a huge potential due to new possibilities offered by these systems to cope with problems that cannot be addressed by robots built from rigid bodies.

Metal-Matrix Composites MMCs are being used or considered for use in a variety of applications in the automotive, aerospace and many other industries, together with applications in many areas of daily life. These materials open up unlimited possibilities for modern material science and engineering, tailoring the design and the characteristics on any usage. This book contains fifteen chapters, all written by experts in the field, which focus on forming methods, material properties and industrial applications of a wide variety of metal matrix composites. This book surveys the latest results and development possibilities for MMCs as engineering and functional materials, making it an utmost source of knowledge to all materials scientists and engineers on the potentials these materials can offer in research, development and design engineering.