Smart soft materials are envisioned to be the building blocks of the next generation of
advanced devices and digitally augmented technologies. In this context, liquid crystals (LCs) …

Soft robots have recently attracted increased attention because their characteristics of low‐
cost fabrication, durability, and deformability make them uniquely suited for applications in …

Endowing artificial advanced materials and systems with biomimetic self‐regulatory
intelligence is of paramount significance for the development of somatosensory soft robotics …

Although liquid crystal elastomers (LCEs) have demonstrated various applications in
artificial muscles and soft robotics, their inherent flexibility and orientation‐dependent forces …

In nature, many mysterious creatures capable of deformation camouflage, color camouflage,
and self‐healing have inspired scientists to develop various biomimetic soft robots …

Sophisticated soft matter engineering has been endorsed as an emerging paradigm for
develo** untethered soft robots with built-in electronic functions and biomimetic …

Active metasurfaces are emerging as the core of next-generation optical devices with their
tunable optical responses and flat-compact topography. Especially for the terahertz band …

In nature, many living organisms exhibiting unique structural coloration and soft-bodied
actuation have inspired scientists to develop advanced structural colored soft actuators …

The development of covalent adaptable liquid crystal networks (LCNs) enabled by
introducing dynamic covalent bonds has endowed liquid crystal actuators with self-healing …

Photonic actuators, serving as an emerging kind of intelligent stimuli‐responsive material,
can exhibit the abilities to change their structural colors/fluorescence and shapes under …