Editorial: Emerging technologies for assistive robotics: current challenges and perspectives

** From Frontiers via Jisc Publications Router ** Licence for this article: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ ** Peer reviewed: TRUE ** Acknowledgements: The authors would like to acknowledge the fifth guest editor, Professor Jacques Penders, who worked at Sheffield Hallam University and was the head of the Centre of Automation and Robotics Research, but who passed away in 2021. **Journal IDs: eissn 2296-9144 **Article IDs: publisher-id: 1288360 **History: published_online 10-10-2023; accepted 26-09-2023; submitted 04-09-2023; collection 2023