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MEDER 2018, the IFToMM International Symposium on Mechanism Design for Robotics, was the fourth event in a series that was started in 2010 as a specific conference activity on mechanisms for robots. The aim of the MEDER Symposium is to bring researchers, industry professionals, and students together from a broad range of disciplines dealing with mechanisms for robots, in an intimate, collegial, and stimulating environment. In the 2018 MEDER event, we received significant attention regarding this initiative, as can be seen by the fact that the Proceedings contain contributions by authors from all around the world.The Proceedings of the MEDER 2018 Symposium have been published within the Springer book series on MMS, and the book contains 52 papers that have been selected after review for oral presentation. These papers cover several aspects of the wide field of robotics dealing with mechanism aspects in theory, design, numerical evaluations, and applications.This Special Issue of Robotics (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/robotics/special_issues/MDR) has been obtained as a result of a second review process and selection, but all the papers that have been accepted for MEDER 2018 are of very good quality with interesting contents that are suitable for journal publication, and the selection process has been difficult.

n/a --- robot control --- cylindrical --- V2SOM --- 3-UPU parallel mechanism --- McKibben muscle --- compliance control --- gait planning --- grasp stability --- robot singularity --- safety mechanism --- robot --- exercising device --- hexapod walking robot --- inadvertent braking --- energy efficiency --- robotic cell --- humanoid robots --- collaborative robot --- robot wrists --- humanoid robotic hands --- stability --- cable-driven robots --- image processing --- fail-safe operation --- VSA --- graphical user interface --- computer-aided design --- robotic legs --- human-robot-interaction --- shape changing --- painting robot --- shape memory alloy --- velocity control --- underactuated fingers --- safe physical human–robot interaction (pHRI) --- human-machine interaction --- compliant mechanism --- iCub --- robot-assisted Doppler sonography --- pHRI --- spherical parallel mechanism --- mobile manipulation --- economic locomotion --- haptic glove --- learning by demonstration --- robot kinematics --- variable stiffness actuator (VSA) --- workspace analysis --- singularity analysis --- collaborative robots --- parallel mechanisms --- rolling --- SMA actuator --- elliptical --- cable-driven parallel robots --- non-photorealistic rendering --- redundancy --- kinematic redundancy --- variable stiffness actuator --- trajectory planning --- kinematics --- pneumatic artificial muscle --- artistic rendering --- force reflection --- safe physical human–robot interaction --- orientational mechanisms --- teleoperation --- actuation burden --- cobot --- hand exoskeleton --- safe physical human-robot interaction (pHRI) --- safe physical human-robot interaction