Inspired by physically adaptive, agile, reconfigurable and multifunctional soft-bodied
animals and human muscles, soft actuators have been developed for a variety of …

Biomachine hybrid robots have been proposed for important scenarios, such as wilderness
rescue, ecological monitoring, and hazardous area surveying. The energy supply unit used …

Underwater devices are critical for environmental applications. However, existing prototypes
typically use bulky, noisy actuators and limited configurations. Consequently, they struggle …

Walking on water is a unique locomotion mode found in aquatic living creatures. However, it
remains challenging to create light-driven aquatic soft robots that can walk freely on water …

The past ten years have seen the rapid expansion of the field of biohybrid robotics. By
combining engineered, synthetic components with living biological materials, new robotics …

Endowed with the expected visions for future surgery, minimally invasive surgery (MIS) has
become one of the most rapid develo** areas in modern surgery. Soft robotics, which …

Biological motions of native muscle tissues rely on the nervous system to interface
movement with the surrounding environment. The neural innervation of muscles, crucial for …

Jellyfish have provided insight into important components of animal propulsion, such as
suction thrust, passive energy recapture, vortex wall effects, and the rotational mechanics of …

Mass manufactured, biologically inspired soft robots are needed for safe robot-animal
interactions. The key challenges are the design and manufacture of high-performance …

Monitoring, sensing, and exploration of over 70% of the Earth's surface that is covered with
water is permitted through the deployment of underwater bioinspired robots without affecting …