Table of contents : Cover Front Matter 1. Introduction Part I. Design of Soft Robots 2. Soft Mechanisms 3. Biological Mechanisms 4. Soft Manipulation and Locomotion 5. Nemertea-Inspired Soft Robotic Mechanism 6. Life-Machine Fusion Devices Part II. Soft Materials 7. Basics of Polymer 8. Biological Material 9. Flexible and Stretchable Electronics and Photonics 10. Soft Actuators 11. Tissue-Interfaced Electronics 12. Paper Mechatronics Part III. Autonomous Soft Robots 13. Modeling and Control of Continuum Body 14. Material Intelligence 15. Information Processing Using Soft Body Dynamics 16. Toward Understanding and Manipulation of Collective Behaviors Using Nematode Caenorhabditis elegans 17. Peristaltic Mixing Pump Based on Intestinal Peristalsis Motion Using Soft Actuators Back Matter