Robotica is one of the two longest-standing journals in robotics. Established in 1983, Robotica has been listed in all main indexing frames, such as Clarivate, and Web of Science. While the world today is disparate from that in the 1980s, robotics is thriving with its remit and scope across many disciplines. With a rampant pace, robotics is developing across the world in the areas of service robotics, surgical and rehabilitation robotics, assistive robotics, reconfigurable robotics, and many other applied robotics. Its development is further enhanced by the enabling technologies in new, burgeoning fields that have piqued public interest, with a tremendous potential to address new, contemporary challenges.

 In this context, Robotica is to act as a forum that provides an opportunity for researchers to report the latest developments, and to present solutions to challenges. The Journal encourages worldwide dissemination of cutting-edge advancements, applications, and research, with respect to industry, healthcare, education, the economy, and society. Robotica has a wide spectrum to cover robotics in the disciplines from kinematics, mechanisms, design, control and implementation to sensing, vision, cognition and machine learning, in the applications from walking, climbing, handling and service robots to underwater, aerial and space robots. The Journal publishes papers across the world and presents global development and progress in robotics. This relies on our excellent team in the editorial board and the Cambridge University Press.

Read a collection of articles from 15 of our eminent authors:

Robotica 40th Anniversary retrospective free to read until December 31, 2023

Special issue: The 40th Anniversary of ROBOTICA 

To celebrate the 40th anniversary of Robotica on her journey since 1983, we organized a 40th Anniversary Special Issue. This special issue is intended to expedite publication of review articles, leading research, and results, in a wide spectrum of robotics. We have invited submission of high-quality papers related to recent advances in emerging topics of robotics.

Topics include:

• Novel design of metamorphic structure and application in robot
• Bio-inspired sensing and actuation
• Dual-arm manipulation
• Human-robot manipulation skill learning
• Kinematics and design
• Multimodal sensor fusion
• Metamorphic and evolutionary robotics
• Simultaneous Localization and Mapping
• Autonomous manipulation robot
• Wearable robotics and bio-mechatronics systems
• Human-in-the-loop control of robot
• Human-robot interaction
• Robot reinforcement learning
• Neuro robotics
• robotic intelligence inspired by human behaviour intelligence