Mechanical metamaterials are meticulously designed structures with exceptional
mechanical properties determined by their microstructures and constituent materials …

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

Stimuli-responsive geometric transformations endow metamaterials with dynamic properties
and functionalities. However, using existing transformation mechanisms to program a single …

Mechanical mechanisms have been used to process information for millennia, with famous
examples ranging from the Antikythera mechanism of the Ancient Greeks to the analytical …

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

Recent developments in autonomous engineered matter have introduced the ability for
intelligent materials to process environmental stimuli and functionally adapt,,–. To formulate …

Origami-inspired engineering has enabled intelligent materials and structures to process
and react to environmental stimuli. However, it is challenging to achieve complete sense …

Multistable mechanical metamaterials are a type of mechanical metamaterials with special
features, such as reusability, energy storage and absorption capabilities, rapid deformation …

Embedding mechanical logic into soft robotics, microelectromechanical systems (MEMS),
and robotic materials can greatly improve their functional capacity. However, such logical …

Mechanical instabilities, especially in the form of bistable and multistable mechanisms, have
recently garnered a lot of interest as a mode of improving the capabilities and increasing the …