Small-scale magnetic soft-bodied robots can be designed to operate based on different
locomotion modes to navigate and function inside unstructured, confined and varying …

Microrotors are microscopic objects that convert energy stored in the environment into
spontaneous rotation, in the form of spinning along an axis, rolling on a surface, or orbiting …

Mobile microrobots, which can navigate, sense, and interact with their environment, could
potentially revolutionize biomedicine and environmental remediation. Many self-organizing …

We study the emergent behaviors of a population of swarming coupled oscillators, dubbed
swarmalators. Previous work considered the simplest, idealized case: identical …

At the microscale, coupled physical interactions between collectives of agents can be
exploited to enable self-organization. Past systems typically consist of identical agents; …

Biological materials dynamically reconfigure their underlying structures in response to
stimuli, achieving adaptability and multifunctionality. Conversely, mechanical metamaterials …

Microbot collectives can cooperate to accomplish complex tasks that are difficult for a single
individual. However, various force-induced microbot collectives maintained by weak …

Swarming, a phenomenon widely present in nature, is a hallmark of nonequilibrium living
systems that harness external energy into collective locomotion. The creation and study of …

Microscopic swarms consisting of, eg, active colloidal particles or microorganisms, display
emergent behaviors not seen in equilibrium systems. They represent an emerging field of …

Coupled physical interactions induce emergent collective behaviors of many interacting
objects. Nonreciprocity in the interactions generates unexpected behaviors. There is a lack …