In contrast to conventional hard actuators, soft actuators offer many vivid advantages, such as improved flexibility, adaptability, and reconfigurability, which are intrinsic to living …
M Yang, Y Xu, X Zhang, HK Bisoyi… - Advanced Functional …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Endowing artificial advanced materials and systems with biomimetic self‐regulatory intelligence is of paramount significance for the development of somatosensory soft robotics …
Y Xia, Y He, F Zhang, Y Liu, J Leng - Advanced materials, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Over the past decades, interest in shape memory polymers (SMPs) has persisted, and immense efforts have been dedicated to developing SMPs and their multifunctional …
Y Chen, Y Zhang, H Li, J Shen, F Zhang, J He, J Lin… - Nano Today, 2023 - Elsevier
Natural organisms offer abundant inspiration for designing and fabricating hydrogel robots with autonomous and intelligent behaviors, including motion, perception, and response to …
Autonomous robots comprise actuation, energy, sensory and control systems built from materials and structures that are not necessarily designed and integrated for …
X Liu, M Gao, J Chen, S Guo, W Zhu… - Advanced Functional …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Inspired by shape‐morphing organisms in nature, researchers have developed various hydrogels with stimuli‐responsive swelling, shrinking, bending, folding, origami, rolling …
Abstract The Artificial Intelligence of Things (AIoT) connects everything with intelligence, while the increase in energy consumption generated by numerous electronic devices puts …
Liquid crystalline elastomers (LCEs) are polymer networks exhibiting anisotropic liquid crystallinity while maintaining elastomeric properties. Owing to diverse polymeric forms and …
M Sitti - Extreme Mechanics Letters, 2021 - Elsevier
Intelligence of physical agents, such as human-made (eg, robots, autonomous cars) and biological (eg, animals, plants) ones, is not only enabled by their computational intelligence …