In contrast to conventional hard actuators, soft actuators offer many vivid advantages, such
as improved flexibility, adaptability, and reconfigurability, which are intrinsic to living …

Once merely ancient arts, origami (ie, paper folding) and kirigami (ie, paper cutting) have in
recent years also become popular for building mechanical metamaterials and now provide …

Biological organisms such as the octopus can reconfigure their shape and properties to
perform diverse tasks. However, soft machines struggle to achieve complex configurations …

This description of “soft robotics” is not intended to be a conventional review, in the sense of
a comprehensive technical summary of a develo** field. Rather, its objective is to describe …

Kirigami, the Japanese art of paper cutting, has recently enabled the design of stretchable
mechanical metamaterials that can be easily realized by embedding arrays of periodic cuts …

Terahertz circular dichroism (TCD) offers multifaceted spectroscopic capabilities for
understanding the mesoscale chiral architecture and low-energy vibrations of …

Kirigami-engineering has become an avenue for realizing multifunctional metamaterials that
tap into the instability landscape of planar surfaces embedded with cuts. Recently, it has …

Making kirigami-inspired cuts into a sheet has been shown to be an effective way of
designing stretchable materials with metamorphic properties where the 2D shape can …

Mechanical logic gates, counterparts of electronic logic gates, are highly desirable for the
development of mechanical computing and robotic materials. Kirigami and origami based …

As we enter the age of designer matter—where objects can morph and change shape on
command—what tools do we need to create shape-shifting structures? At the heart of an …