Untethered annelids-inspired soft robots can be used in space-confined compliant
interactions where remote actuation is necessary. In contrast to their fully-soft counterparts …

Conventional soft pneumatic actuators (SPAs) are made of soft materials that facilitate safe
interaction and adaptability. In positioning and loading tasks, however, SPAs demonstrate …

Origami, the art of folding paper, can impart useful design inspirations to the creation of
mechanical structures and mechanisms. Bistability is a useful property for origami designs …

Soft robots often draw inspiration from nature to navigate different environments. Although
the inching motion and crawling motion of caterpillars have been widely studied in the …

We present an approach to overcoming challenges in dynamical dexterity for robots through
programmably compliant origami mechanisms. Our work leverages a one-parameter family …

The capability of stiffness manipulation for materials and structures is essential for tuning
motion, saving energy, and delivering high power. However, high-efficiency in situ stiffness …

Origami has been proved as a valuable tool to develop deployable, multifunctional, and
tunable devices for diverse engineering applications. Inspired by the Kresling origami, this …

Inspired by the embodied intelligence observed in octopus arms, we introduce magnetically
controlled origami robotic arms based on Kresling patterns for multimodal deformations …

Biomimetic soft robotic crawlers have attracted extensive attention in various engineering
fields, owing to their adaptivity to different terrains. Earthworm-like crawlers realize …

Three basic deformation modes of an object (bending, twisting, and contraction/extension)
along with their various combinations and delicate controls lead to diverse locomotion. As a …