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 …

Recent advances in lithography technology and the spread of 3D printers allow us a facile
fabrication of special materials with complicated microstructures. The materials are called …

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

Small‐scale soft robots are attracting increasing interest for visible and potential applications
owing to their safety and tolerance resulting from their intrinsic soft bodies or compliant …

In recent years, kirigami–the ancient art of paper-cutting–has been widely studied by
scientists and engineers in various fields such as structural mechanics, materials, optics …

The field of soft robotics is rapidly progressing toward applications including; wearable
electronics, prosthetics, and biomedical devices. This is leading to demand for flexible …

Kirigami, the ancient art of paper cutting, has evolved into a design and fabrication
framework to engineer multi‐functional materials and structures at vastly different scales. By …

Wearable robotic devices are receiving rapidly growing attentions for human-centered
scenarios from medical, rehabilitation, to industrial applications. Supernumerary robotic …

Origami/kirigami, the ancient art of paper folding and cutting techniques, has provided
considerable inspiration for structural design routes in the engineering and medical fields …

Deployable structures have a wide range of applications in, for instance, soft robotics, bionic
machinery, aviation equipment, and programmable metamaterials. Tensegrity, based on the …