The advent of soft robotics has led to great advancements in robots, wearables, and even
manufacturing processes by employing entirely soft‐bodied systems that interact safely with …

The capacity to respond or adapt to environmental changes is an intrinsic property of living
systems that comprise highly-connected subcomponents communicating through chemical …

In nature, many mysterious creatures capable of deformation camouflage, color camouflage,
and self‐healing have inspired scientists to develop various biomimetic soft robots …

Melanin is a common name for a group of biopolymers with the dominance of potential
applications in medical sciences, cosmeceutical, bioremediation, and bioelectronic …

Animals can modify their body shape and/or color for protection, camouflage and
communication. This adaptability has inspired fabrication of actuators with structural color …

Through the use of the limited materials palette, optimally designed micro-and
nanostructures, and tightly regulated processes, nature demonstrates exquisite control of …

Structural color can be produced by nanoperiodic dielectric structures using soft materials.
Chiral photonic elastomers (CPEs) produced from elastic chiral liquid crystal molecules can …

Biological skin systems can perceive various external stimuli through ion transduction.
Especially, the skin of some advanced organisms such as cephalopods can further promptly …

To add more functionalities and overcome the limitation in conventional soft robots, highly
anisotropic soft actuators with color shifting function during actuation is demonstrated for the …

This review presents a general view of all types of melanin in all types of organisms. Melanin
is frequently considered just an animal cutaneous pigment and is treated separately from …