Magnetically responsive soft materials are soft composites where magnetic fillers are
embedded into soft polymeric matrices. These active materials have attracted extensive …

Artificial muscles are the core components of the smart and interactive soft robotic systems,
providing the capabilities in shape morphing, manipulation, and mobility. Intense research …

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

Robots with submillimeter dimensions are of interest for applications that range from tools for
minimally invasive surgical procedures in clinical medicine to vehicles for manipulating …

Nature is a constant source of inspiration for materials scientists, fueling the dream of
mimicking life-like motion and tasks in untethered, man-made devices. Liquid crystalline …

Functional soft materials, exhibiting multiple types of deformation, have shown their
potential/abilities to achieve complicated biomimetic behaviors (soft robots). Inspired by the …

Magnetically driven small‐scale soft robots are promising for applications in biomedicine,
due to their fast, programmable deformation, and remote, untethered actuation to …