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Untethered flight of an insect-sized flapping-wing microscale aerial vehicle

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An analytical model for the design of Peano-HASEL actuators with drastically improved performance

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Hydraulically amplified self-healing electrostatic actuators with muscle-like performance

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Bottlebrush Elastomers: A New Platform for Freestanding Electroactuation

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Liftoff of an Electromagnetically Driven Insect-Inspired Flapping-Wing Robot

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Experimental and computational studies of the aerodynamic performance of a flapping and passively rotating insect wing

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A rotary joint for a flapping wing actuated by dielectric elastomers: design and experiment

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Intrinsically stretchable and transparent thin-film transistors based on printable silver nanowires, carbon nanotubes and an elastomeric dielectric

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Thermally Tunable, Self-Healing Composites for Soft Robotic Applications

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Lightweight mechanical amplifiers for rolled dielectric elastomer actuators and their integration with bio-inspired wing flappers

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Biomechanical strategies for mitigating collision damage in insect wings: structural design versus embedded elastic materials

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Stimuli-responsive transformation in carbon nanotube/expanding microsphere–polymer composites

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Controlled Flight of a Biologically Inspired, Insect-Scale Robot

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Stretchable, Transparent, Ionic Conductors

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Soft Robotics: A Perspective—Current Trends and Prospects for the Future

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Flexible and stretchable electrodes for dielectric elastomer actuators

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Mosquitoes survive raindrop collisions by virtue of their low mass

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Pop-up book MEMS

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Stretching Dielectric Elastomer Performance

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Design, Aerodynamics, and Vision-Based Control of the DelFly

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