From power plants on land to bridges over the sea, safety-critical built environments require
periodic inspections for detecting issues to avoid functional discontinuities of these …

Miniature soft robots are mobile devices, which are made of smart materials that can be
actuated by external stimuli to realize their desired functionalities. Here, the key …

Untethered small-scale (from several millimetres down to a few micrometres in all
dimensions) robots that can non-invasively access confined, enclosed spaces may enable …

Locomotion is an important ability of animals and bioinspired mobile robots. It is, however,
challenging for current soft mobile robots to achieve multimodal locomotion within a simple …

Soft robots typically exhibit limited agility due to inherent properties of soft materials. The
structural design of soft robots is one of the key elements to improve their mobility. Inspired …

Diverse and adaptable modes of complex motion observed at different scales in living
creatures are challenging to reproduce in robotic systems. Achieving dexterous movement …

Soft robots typically involve manual assembly of core hardware components like actuators,
sensors, and controllers. This increases fabrication time and reduces consistency, especially …

Matching the rich multimodality of natural organisms, ie, the ability to transition between
crawling and swimming, walking and jumping, etc., represents a grand challenge in the …

Soft robots have shown great potential for surveillance applications due to their interesting
attributes including inherent flexibility, extreme adaptability, and excellent ability to move in …

In recent years, robotic vehicles have been deployed for planetary exploration purposes,
surveying extraterrestrial terrains in search for possible signs of life and also to learn more …