Recent advancements in wearable electronics offer seamless integration with the human
body for extracting various biophysical and biochemical information for real-time health …

Inspired by physically adaptive, agile, reconfigurable and multifunctional soft-bodied
animals and human muscles, soft actuators have been developed for a variety of …

Rationally designed architected materials have attained previously untapped territories in
materials property space. The properties and behaviours of architected materials need not …

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

Autonomous robots comprise actuation, energy, sensory and control systems built from
materials and structures that are not necessarily designed and integrated for …

Three basic deformation modes of an object (bending, twisting, and contraction/extension)
along with their various combinations and delicate controls lead to diverse locomotion. As a …

As polymer networks infiltrated with water, hydrogels constitute the major components of the
human body; and hydrogels have been widely used in applications that closely interact with …

With the rapidly growing attention to human-robot interfaces, soft robotics has attracted a
great deal of interest. Soft robots have diverse advantages, including compliancy and safety …

Abstract Magneto-/electro-responsive polymers (MERPs) are a class of stimuli-responsive
materials that are actuated when triggered by external magnetic/electric fields. MERPs …

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