Additive manufacturing (AM) has gained significant attention due to its ability to drive
technological development as a sustainable, flexible, and customizable manufacturing …

In conventional classification, soft robots feature mechanical compliance as the main
distinguishing factor from traditional robots made of rigid materials. Recent advances in …

Intelligent magnetic soft robots capable of programmable structural changes and
multifunctionality modalities depend on material architectures and methods for controlling …

Stimulus-responsive shape-shifting polymers,–have shown unique promise in emerging
applications, including soft robotics,,–, medical devices, aerospace structures and flexible …

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

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 …

Mechanical metamaterials are a class of functional materials with designability and
extraordinary mechanical properties. Due to the manufacturing limitation of traditional …

Rationally designed architected materials have attained previously untapped territories in
materials property space. The properties and behaviours of architected materials need not …

Advances in additive manufacturing techniques have enabled the creation of stimuli-
responsive materials with designed three-dimensional (3D) architectures. Unlike biological …

Advances in robotic technology have been adopted in various subspecialties of both open
and minimally invasive surgery, offering benefits such as enhanced surgical precision and …