Joint Special Issue: Design and Control of Responsive Robots

This joint special issue of the Journal of Mechanisms and Robotics (JMR) and the Journal of Computational and Nonlinear Dynamics (JCND) aims to bridge between these research fields and to bring together the latest research on robot kinematics and dynamics as well as intelligent control and data-driven methods for perception, planning, model identification, and control.
CALL FOR PAPERS: Special Issue on Design, Modeling, and Control of Cable-Driven Parallel Robots

The Journal of Mechanisms and Robotics invites submissions to the Special Issue on Design, Modeling, and Control of Cable-Driven Parallel Robots.
2022 Reviewer Awards

ASME J. Mechanisms Robotics. Apr 2023, 15(2): 020201. https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4056758 The Editor and Editorial Board of the Journal of Mechanisms and Robotics would like to thank all of the reviewers for volunteering their expertise and time reviewing manuscripts in 2022. Serving as reviewers for the journal is a critical service necessary to maintain the quality of our publication […]
ASME JMR Top 20 Accessed Articles in 2022

View the ASME Digital Collection most accessed (downloaded and viewed) Journal of Mechanisms and Robotics articles in 2022, listed in ranked order.
Special Section on Theory and Design of Reconfigurable Mechanisms and Robots: Published December 2022

The Special Section on the Theory and Design of Reconfigurable Mechanisms and Robots is now available on ASME’s Digital Collection. This Special Section features 14 manuscripts and a Guest Editorial and is intended to provide a platform for sharing and presenting new research and solutions for Reconfigurable Mechanisms and Robots in theory and design.
Special Issue on Selected Papers from IDETC-CIE 2021: Published August 2022

In the August 2022 issue, the ASME Journal of Mechanisms and Robotics published a Special Issue drawing on papers from the 45th Mechanisms and Robotics Conference (MR), held as part of IDETC-CIE 2021.
Invitation to IDETC-CIE 2022 JMR Journal Spotlights

During IDETC-CIE 2022 in St. Louis, JMR’s Journal Spotlight session on August 16, 4:10-5:50 PM (Central Time) will feature presentations by Ruiyu Bai, Yaobin Tian, and Just L. Herder.
Announcing the 2021 Best Paper Award and Honorable Mention

Together with the Editorial Board, I am pleased to announce the winner of JMR’s 2021 Best Paper Award: P. Reinier Kuppens, Miguel A. Bessa, Just L. Herder, and Jonathan B. Hopkins, “Compliant Mechanisms That Use Static Balancing to Achieve Dramatically Different States of Stiffness,” ASME J. Mechanisms Robotics, April 2021; 13(2): 021010.
Top 10 Downloads in 2021

The following papers published by the ASME Journal of Mechanisms and Robotics had the most downloads and views in 2021.
Call for Papers: Joint Special Issue on Design and Control of Responsive Robots

This Joint Special Issue (published over two volumes, one in JCND and the other in JMR) aims to bring together the latest research on robot kinematics and dynamics as well as intelligent control and data-driven methods for perception, planning, model identification and control.
Submission deadline extended to: June 13, 2022