Message from the new Editors-in-Chief

Abstract

In January this year, Robotica enters its 38th year as the first international journal on robotics. 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 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 has piqued public interest, with a tremendous potential to address new, contemporary challenges. In recent times, modern development of robotics is expected to festinate dramatically, partly because of CoVid-19, while potential applications could be in human environments for cleaning, sanitizing, avoiding contaminations, and providing a means of decreasing human interaction.