The adaptability of natural organisms in altering body shapes in response to the
environment has inspired the development of artificial morphing matter. These materials …

This description of “soft robotics” is not intended to be a conventional review, in the sense of
a comprehensive technical summary of a develo** field. Rather, its objective is to describe …

Materials with target nonlinear mechanical response can support the design of innovative
soft robots, wearable devices, footwear, and energy‐absorbing systems, yet it is challenging …

Mechanical metamaterials are man-made structures with counterintuitive mechanical
properties that originate in the geometry of their unit cell instead of the properties of each …

Deployability, multifunctionality, and tunability are features that can be explored in the
design space of origami engineering solutions. These features arise from the shape …

Multistability plays an important role in advanced engineering applications such as
metastructures, deployable structures, and reconfigurable robotics. However, most existing …

Abstract Three-dimensional (3D) structures capable of reversible transformations in their
geometrical layouts have important applications across a broad range of areas. Most …

Origami offers an avenue to program three-dimensional shapes via scale-independent and
non-destructive fabrication. While such programming has focused on the geometry of a …

Multistable mechanical metamaterials are artificial materials whose microarchitectures offer
more than two different stable configurations. Existing multistable mechanical metamaterials …

Instabilities in solids and structures are ubiquitous across all length and time scales, and
engineering design principles have commonly aimed at preventing instability. However …