Multimaterial mechanisms are seen throughout natural organisms across all length scales.
The different materials in their bodies, from rigid, structural materials to soft, elastic materials …

Miniature soft robots offer excellent safety and deformability, which are highly desirable in
applications such as navigation in confined areas or the manipulation of microscale objects …

Current additive manufacturing, including three-dimensional (3D) and so-called four-
dimensional printing, of soft robotic devices is limited to millimeter sizes. In this study, we …

Soft robotic systems are human friendly and can mimic the complex motions of animals,
which introduces promising potential in various applications, ranging from novel actuation …

This review demonstrates that 4D printing constitutes a key technology to enable significant
advances in microrobotics. Unlike traditional microfabrication techniques, 4D printing …

Microrobots, which can perform tasks in difficult-to-reach parts of the human body under their
own or external power supply, are potential tools for biomedical applications, such as drug …

The feasibility of additive manufacturing actuating microstructures and microdevices with
small dimension is presented. Using a custom-built extrusion 3D printer and CAD model of …

In the field of soft robotics, pneumatic elements play an important role due to their sensitive
and adaptive behavior. Nevertheless, the rapid prototyping of such actuators is still …

The development of 3D soft‐robotic components is currently hindered by material limitations
associated with conventional 3D printing techniques. To overcome this challenge, an …

Soft robots can outperform traditional rigid robots in terms of structural compliance,
enhanced safety, and efficient locomotion. However, it is still a grand challenge to design …