Soft materials possess several distinctive characteristics, such as controllable deformation,
infinite degrees of freedom, and self‐assembly, which make them promising candidates for …

Flying insects are able to hover and perform agile maneuvers by relying on their flap**
wings to produce control forces, as well as flight forces, due to the absence of tail control …

Natural selection has tuned many flying and swimming animals to share the same narrow
design space for high power efficiency, eg, their dimensionless Strouhal numbers St that …

Inertial piezoelectric actuators based on the impact principle have attracted much attention
in precision positioning applications recently. However, the control strategy that can utilize …

This paper reports on what differentiates the field of soft (ie soft-bodied) robotics from the
conventional hard (ie rigid-bodied) robotics. The main difference centres on seamlessly …

Single object tracking (SOT) is a fundamental problem in computer vision, with a wide range
of applications, including autonomous driving, augmented reality, and robot navigation. The …

Flying insects are capable of flap** their wings to provide the required power and control
forces for flight. A coordinated organizational system including muscles, wings, and control …

In the last two decades, insect-inspired flap** wing micro air vehicles (MAVs) have
attracted great attention for their potential for highly agile flight. Insects flap their wings at the …

Micro air vehicles (MAVs) have wide application prospects in environmental monitoring,
disaster rescue and other civil fields because of their flexibility and maneuverability …