Bioinspired Design of Light‐Powered Crawling, Squeezing, and Jumping Untethered Soft Robot

Light or thermally-powered autonomous rolling of an elastomer rod

(2018) Chihyung Ahn et al.   ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Polydopamine-Coated Main-Chain Liquid Crystal Elastomer as Optically Driven Artificial Muscle

(2018) Hongmiao Tian et al.   ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Soft Robotics

(2018) George M. Whitesides   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

The principles of cascading power limits in small, fast biological and engineered systems

(2018) Mark Ilton et al.   SCIENCE

Small-scale soft-bodied robot with multimodal locomotion

(2018) Wenqi Hu et al.   NATURE

Performance, morphology and control of power-amplified mandibles in the trap-jaw antMyrmoteras(Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

(2017) Fredrick J. Larabee et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Light-Driven, Caterpillar-Inspired Miniature Inching Robot

(2017) Hao Zeng et al.   MACROMOLECULAR RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

Making waves in a photoactive polymer film

(2017) Anne Helene Gelebart et al.   NATURE

Programming Photoresponse in Liquid Crystal Polymer Actuators with Laser Projector

(2017) Owies M. Wani et al.   Advanced Optical Materials

Light-Mediated Manufacture and Manipulation of Actuators

(2016) Dong-Dong Han et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Structured light enables biomimetic swimming and versatile locomotion of photoresponsive soft microrobots

(2016) Stefano Palagi et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Programmable artificial phototactic microswimmer

(2016) Baohu Dai et al.   Nature Nanotechnology

Photomotility of polymers

(2016) Jeong Jae Wie et al.   Nature Communications

Light-Driven Soft Robot Mimics Caterpillar Locomotion in Natural Scale

(2016) Mikołaj Rogóż et al.   Advanced Optical Materials

A Graphene-Based Bimorph Structure for Design of High Performance Photoactuators

(2015) Ying Hu et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Light-Fueled Microscopic Walkers

(2015) Hao Zeng et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Snap! Trap-jaw ants in Borneo also jump using their legs

(2015) D Magdalena Sorger   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Design, fabrication and control of soft robots

(2015) Daniela Rus et al.   NATURE

Voxelated liquid crystal elastomers

(2015) Taylor H. Ware et al.   SCIENCE

A 3D-printed, functionally graded soft robot powered by combustion

(2015) N. W. Bartlett et al.   SCIENCE

Light-induced crawling of crystals on a glass surface

(2015) Emi Uchida et al.   Nature Communications

An Untethered, Jumping Roly-Poly Soft Robot Driven by Combustion

(2015) Michael Loepfe et al.   Soft Robotics

Mandible-Powered Escape Jumps in Trap-Jaw Ants Increase Survival Rates during Predator-Prey Encounters

(2015) Fredrick J. Larabee et al.   PLoS One

Photoresponsive Soft-Robotic Platform: Biomimetic Fabrication and Remote Actuation

(2014) Weitao Jiang et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Photoactuators and motors based on carbon nanotubes with selective chirality distributions

(2014) Xiaobo Zhang et al.   Nature Communications

Soft robotics: a bioinspired evolution in robotics

(2013) Sangbae Kim et al.   TRENDS IN BIOTECHNOLOGY

Liquid-crystalline elastomer micropillar array for haptic actuation

(2013) Núria Torras et al.   Journal of Materials Chemistry C

Direct Sun-Driven Artificial Heliotropism for Solar Energy Harvesting Based on a Photo-Thermomechanical Liquid-Crystal Elastomer Nanocomposite

(2012) Chensha Li et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

The Fern Sporangium: A Unique Catapult

(2012) X. Noblin et al.   SCIENCE

Reversible white-light actuation of carbon nanotube incorporated liquid crystalline elastomer nanocomposites

(2011) Chensha Li et al.   Soft Matter

Liquid Crystalline Elastomers as Actuators and Sensors

(2010) Christian Ohm et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

MODULARITY AND SCALING IN FAST MOVEMENTS: POWER AMPLIFICATION IN MANTIS SHRIMP

(2010) Thomas Claverie et al.   EVOLUTION

Steerable miniature jumping robot

(2009) Mirko Kovač et al.   AUTONOMOUS ROBOTS

Photomobile polymer materials—various three-dimensional movements

(2008) Munenori Yamada et al.   JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY