I am glad to announce that the website (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/robotics/special_issues/3E916685J9) of "Kinematics and Robot Design VI, KaRD2023" , which is the 6th edition of the KaRD series of special issues published on the MDPI journal "Robotics", is ready and open for accepting submissions.

The KaRD series of open-access Special Issues is characterized by a low publication cost (400 CHF/paper is the article-processing fee (APC) for each published paper), which is comparable with the registration fee of a small international congress.

The KaRD series started in 2018 and publishes one issue yearly. The websites are open environments where researchers can present their works and discuss all the topics on the many aspects of kinematics in the design of robotic/automatic systems by also using supplementary multimedia materials uploadable during the submission. A “Scientific Committee”, which collects researchers coming from all over the world, supports and supervises the Guest Editor activity.

All the papers are peer-reviewed as soon as they are submitted and, if accepted, are immediately published in MDPI’s Robotics and appear on the website of the KaRD issue. The papers of each KaRD issue are also collected into freely downloadable e-books, whose printed copies can also be ordered at a price that covers the printing costs.

KaRD2023 provides a good opportunity to present research results that are immediately readable and usable by other researchers. In particular, submitting authors:

Are able to also submit accompanying multimedia material;

Can request the “Open Peer Review” during the submission;

Are immediately able to upload, as a preprint on https://www.preprints.org/, the paper version submitted for review, where it will receive a DOI and will be readable/citable by other researchers;

Are able to upload their published paper on many social networks for researchers (e.g., ResearchGate.net), where they can publicly or privately interact with other researchers to start a discussion on the published results.

Can receive comments and reply to them directly on the website of their published papers, where the same authors can add comments to their papers, which integrate them and are jointly visible with them.

In short, the KaRD series is an “agora”, where researchers efficiently exchange their experiences.

Detailed information is reported at the following link

https://www.mdpi.com/journal/robotics/special_issues/3E916685J9

and in the attached flyer.