Conventional industrial robots with the rigid actuation technology have made great progress
for humans in the fields of automation assembly and manufacturing. With an increasing …

In response to a stimulus, a soft material deforms, and the deformation provides a function.
We call such a material a soft active material (SAM). This review focuses on one class of soft …

High-gauge-factor stretchable strain sensors are developed by utilizing a new strategy of
thickness-gradient films with high durability, and high uniaxial/isotropic stretchability based …

Dielectric elastomers (DEs) are a type of multifunctional materials with salient features that
are very attractive in develo** soft, lightweight, and small-scale transducers and robotics …

In the past decade, the development of theory has deeply revealed the electromechanical
coupling deformation mechanism of dielectric elastomer (DE). Many theoretical predictions …

Active soft materials that change shape on demand are of interest for a myriad of
applications, including soft robotics, biomedical devices, and adaptive systems. Despite …

Although dielectric elastomers have been extensively studied recently, to date there has
been little research into application of dielectric elastomer actuators to undersea robots. This …

A soft dielectric membrane is prone to snap-through instability. We present theory and
experiment to show that the instability can be harnessed to achieve giant voltage-triggered …

Dielectric elastomers are capable of large voltage-induced deformation, but achieving such
large deformation in practice has been a major challenge due to electromechanical …

Colloidal liquid metal alloys of gallium, with melting points below room temperature, are
potential candidates for creating electrically conductive and flexible composites. However …