the rehabilita tion and assis tive do main and requires a new generation of trained people to address the new challenges it will raise. The IEEE Ro botics and Automation Society (RAS) Seasonal School on Rehabilitation and Assistive Technologies based on Soft Robotics (RAS SofTech-Rehab 2021) was proposed to focus on these challenges and bring to gether experts in the soft robotics and rehabilitation robotics fields to discuss them. It was organized by Università Campus BioMedico di Roma (Italy), in cooperation with Tohoku University (Japan), the University of Pennsylvania (United States), and Politecnico di Bari (a) (b) (c) (d) Figure 2. (a) Cecilia Laschi (National University of Singapore) talks about bioinspiration and applications to the biomedical field. (b) Kyu Jin Cho (Seoul National University) presents tendon drive systems for soft wearable robots. (c) Conor Walsh (John A. Paulson Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences) tackles the issues of lightweight and nonrestrictive exosuits for clinic, community, and workplace applications. (d) Christian Duriez and Hugo Talbot during their workshop on the Deformable Robotic Software platform for modeling, simulating, and controlling of deformable robots on the Simulation Open Framework Architecture. 188 * IEEE ROBOTICS & AUTOMATION MAGAZINE * SEPTEMBER 2021