One of the emerging themes of fish-inspired robotics is flexibility. Adding flexibility to the
body, joints, or fins of fish-inspired robots can significantly improve thrust and/or efficiency …

Underwater devices are critical for environmental applications. However, existing prototypes
typically use bulky, noisy actuators and limited configurations. Consequently, they struggle …

Fishes have learned how to achieve outstanding swimming performance through the
evolution of hundreds of millions of years, which can provide bio-inspiration for robotic fish …

In nature, living organisms evolve unique functional components with mechanically adaptive
compatibility to cater dynamic change of interface friction/lubrication. This mechanism can …

Materials with programmable conductivity and stiffness offer new design opportunities for
next-generation engineered systems in soft robotics and electronic devices. However …

Collective behaviour defines the lives of many animal species on the Earth. Underwater
swarms span several orders of magnitude in size, from coral larvae and krill to tunas and …

In this letter, we study the tunable stiffness and the multi-stability of corrugated tubes
consisting of serially interconnected hexagonal frusta based on the Kresling origami pattern …

Miniaturized mobile electronic system is an effective candidate for in situ exploration of
confined spaces. However, realizing such system still faces challenges in powering issue …

Natural mollusks perform complex mechanical actions through reversible large‐strain
deformation and stiffness switching, which are challenging to achieve simultaneously in …

Fish locomotion which adopts body and/or caudal fin swimming mode consists of different
motions, such as Cruising-straight, Cruising-turn, and various fast turns, among others …