Liquid crystal elastomers (LCEs) have long held significant promise as materials for artificial
muscles and smart actuators. Recent advancements in this field have introduced innovative …

Living organisms composed of composite materials with complex structures support
autonomous and intelligent behaviors, such as motility, perception and response to changes …

Self‐sustained motions are widespread in biological systems by harvesting energy from
surrounding environments, which inspire scientists to develop autonomous soft robots …

Steering soft robots in a self-regulated manner remains a grand challenge, which often
requires continuous symmetry breaking and recovery steps for persistent motion. Although …

Driving synthetic materials out of equilibrium via dissipative mechanisms paves the way
towards autonomous, self-sustained robotic motions. However, obtaining agile movement in …

Recent experiments have revealed a new end-to-end ribbon spiral structure capable of
demonstrating two interconnected periodic zero-energy-mode self-rotation-eversion in …

Self‐oscillation phenomena observed in nature serve as extraordinary inspiration for
designing synthetic autonomous moving systems. Converting self‐oscillation into …

The development of stimuli‐responsive soft actuators, a task largely undertaken by material
scientists, has become a major driving force in pushing the frontiers of microrobotics …

Self-sustaining systems can generate and maintain periodic or chaotic motion under
constant external stimulation, and has potential applications in fields such as soft robotics …

Liquid crystal elastomers (LCEs) typically exhibit slow deformation in response to
environmental stimuli. However, recent studies have demonstrated that when LCE is …