Soft robotics has received substantial attention due to its remarkable deformability, making it
well-suited for a wide range of applications in complex environments, such as medicine …

Engineering systems that leverage the flexibility and softness of soft materials have been
fostering revolutionary progress and broad interest across various applications. The …

Magnetic soft grippers have attracted intensive interest due to their untethered controllability,
rapid response, and biological safety. However, manipulating living objects requires a …

Miniature shape‐morphing soft actuators driven by external stimuli and fluidic pressure hold
great promise in morphing matter and small‐scale soft robotics. However, it remains …

Thiol-ene polymers are a promising class of biomaterials with a wide range of potential
applications, including organs-on-a-chip, microfluidics, drug delivery, and wound healing …

Recent advances in active materials and fabrication techniques have enabled the
production of cyclically self-deployable metamaterials with an expanded functionality space …

Self-sensing adaptability is a high-level intelligence in living creatures and is highly desired
for their biomimetic soft robots for efficient interaction with the surroundings. Self-sensing …

This paper is to review and discuss the current state-of-the-art and future direction of the
evolutionary robotics in its deformable morphing and multivariable stiffness. Structural …

Supercoiled polymer artificial muscles have shown great potential for achieving
simultaneous flexible sensing and actuating. However, the lack of clarity regarding the …

Terrestrial and aquatic animals exhibit appendages adapted to the propulsion physics of
their primary habitats. Terrestrial appendages typically assume stiff and load-bearing form …