Snap‐through bistability is often observed in nature (eg, fast snap** to closure of Venus
flytrap) and the life (eg, bottle caps and hair clippers). Recently, harnessing bistability and …

Bistable mechanical systems having two local minima of potential energy can rest in either
of the two stable equilibrium states in the absence of external loadings. A snap‐through …

Many inspirations for soft robotics are from the natural world, such as octopuses, snakes,
and caterpillars. Here, we report a caterpillar-inspired, energy-efficient crawling robot with …

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 …

Jellyfish are among the widely distributed nature creatures that can effectively control the
fluidic flow around their transparent soft body, thus achieving movements in the water and …

Kirigami, a traditional paper cutting art, offers a promising strategy for 2D-to-3D shape
morphing through cut-guided deformation. Existing kirigami designs for target 3D curved …

Achieving multicapability in a single soft gripper for handling ultrasoft, ultrathin, and
ultraheavy objects is challenging due to the tradeoff between compliance, strength, and …

Harnessing snap**, an instability phenomenon observed in nature (eg, Venus flytraps), for
autonomy has attracted growing interest in autonomous soft robots. However, achieving self …

Miniature shape‐morphing soft actuators driven by external stimuli and fluidic pressure hold
great promise in morphing matter and small‐scale soft robotics. However, it remains …

Negative stiffness mechanical metamaterials have shown great promise for various
applications and are progressing toward programmability. The key challenge in designing …