The programmable nature of smart textiles makes them an indispensable part of an
emerging new technology field. Smart textile‐integrated microelectronic systems (STIMES) …

Textiles have emerged as a promising class of materials for developing wearable robots that
move and feel like everyday clothing. Textiles represent a favorable material platform for …

Self-healing materials integrated with excellent mechanical strength and simultaneously
high healing efficiency would be of great use in many fields, however their fabrication has …

The area of artificial muscle is a highly interdisciplinary field of research that has evolved
rapidly in the last 30 years. Recent advances in nanomaterial fabrication and …

Artificial muscles are promising in soft exoskeletons, locomotion robots, and operation
machines. However, their performance in contraction ratio, output force, and dynamic …

Success in making artificial muscles that are faster and more powerful and that provide
larger strokes would expand their applications. Electrochemical carbon nanotube yarn …

Phototropism and self‐oscillation are both self‐regulating intelligent movements of
biological organisms. However, realizing these intelligent movements in one same artificial …

Although guest-filled carbon nanotube yarns provide record performance as torsional and
tensile artificial muscles, they are expensive, and only part of the muscle effectively …

Smart systems are those that display autonomous or collaborative functionalities, and
include the ability to sense multiple inputs, to respond with appropriate operations, and to …

Electrochemical actuators directly converting electrical energy to mechanical energy are
critically important for artificial intelligence. However, their energy transduction efficiency is …