Soft robots' flexibility and compliance give them the potential to outperform traditional rigid-
bodied robots while performing multiple tasks in unexpectedly changing environments and …

In contrast to conventional hard actuators, soft actuators offer many vivid advantages, such
as improved flexibility, adaptability, and reconfigurability, which are intrinsic to living …

Many inspirations for soft robotics are from the natural world, such as octopuses, snakes,
and caterpillars. Here, we report a caterpillar-inspired, energy-efficient crawling robot with …

Conspectus Nature provides abundant inspiration and elegant paradigms for the
development of smart materials that can actuate, morph, and move on demand. One …

Soft robotics technologies are paving the way toward robotic abilities which are vital for a
wide range of applications, including manufacturing, manipulation, gripping, human …

Inspired by shape‐morphing organisms in nature, researchers have developed various
hydrogels with stimuli‐responsive swelling, shrinking, bending, folding, origami, rolling …

In nature, many mysterious creatures capable of deformation camouflage, color camouflage,
and self‐healing have inspired scientists to develop various biomimetic soft robots …

Biohybrid systems have been developed to better understand the design principles and
coordination mechanisms of biological systems. We consider whether two functional …

Nanocellulose is currently in the limelight of extensive research from fundamental science to
technological applications owing to its renewable and carbon‐neutral nature, superior …

Artificial muscles based on stimuli-responsive polymers usually exhibit mechanical
compliance, versatility, and high power-to-weight ratio, showing great promise to potentially …