This tenure track position will focus on exploiting the flexible characteristics of soft robots to safely and effectively (co)-operate in close proximity with humans. Co-operation with soft robots will be achieved via rigorous design and control of soft robots on the one hand and by understanding how humans (have to) interact with the soft robots on the other hand. Strong synergy is expected with the group of prof. Abbink, and his proposed tenure track position and postdoc on haptic human-robot interaction.