Localizable, Identifiable, and Perceptive Untethered Light-Driven Soft Crawling Robot

Desynchronized liquid crystalline network actuators with deformation reversal capability

(2021) Yao-Yu Xiao et al.   Nature Communications

Pneumatic soft robots take a step toward autonomy

(2021) Anoop Rajappan et al.   Science Robotics

Customizing a self-healing soft pump for robot

(2021) Wei Tang et al.   Nature Communications

Electrostatic footpads enable agile insect-scale soft robots with trajectory control

(2021) Jiaming Liang et al.   Science Robotics

NIR–UV Responsive Actuator with Graphene Oxide/Microchannel-Induced Liquid Crystal Bilayer Structure for Biomimetic Devices

(2020) Lanshan Zhang et al.   ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Bioinspired footed soft robot with unidirectional all-terrain mobility

(2020) Xin Wang et al.   Materials Today

A Soft Transporter Robot Fueled by Light

(2020) Marina Pilz da Cunha et al.   Advanced Science

Somatosensory, Light‐Driven, Thin‐Film Robots Capable of Integrated Perception and Motility

(2020) Xiao‐Qiao Wang et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Bio-Inspired High Sensitivity of Moisture-Mechanical GO Films with Period-Gradient Structures

(2020) Mingti Wang et al.   ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Stretchable Nanocomposite Sensors, Nanomembrane Interconnectors, and Wireless Electronics toward Feedback–Loop Control of a Soft Earthworm Robot

(2020) Riccardo Goldoni et al.   ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Asymmetric elastoplasticity of stacked graphene assembly actualizes programmable untethered soft robotics

(2020) Shuai Wang et al.   Nature Communications

Programmable and Self-Healing Light-Driven Actuators through Synergetic Use of Water-Shaping and -Welding Methods

(2020) Mingcen Weng et al.   ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Fast and programmable locomotion of hydrogel-metal hybrids under light and magnetic fields

(2020) Chuang Li et al.   Science Robotics

A Millimeter‐Scale Snail Robot Based on a Light‐Powered Liquid Crystal Elastomer Continuous Actuator

(2019) Mikołaj Rogóż et al.   MACROMOLECULAR RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

Multi-functional soft-bodied jellyfish-like swimming

(2019) Ziyu Ren et al.   Nature Communications

Leaf-inspired multiresponsive MXene-based actuator for programmable smart devices

(2019) Guofa Cai et al.   Science Advances

Insect-scale fast moving and ultrarobust soft robot

(2019) Yichuan Wu et al.   Science Robotics

Photothermally and magnetically controlled reconfiguration of polymer composites for soft robotics

(2019) Jessica A.-C. Liu et al.   Science Advances

Multifunctional metallic backbones for origami robotics with strain sensing and wireless communication capabilities

(2019) Haitao Yang et al.   Science Robotics

Visible and infrared three-wavelength modulated multi-directional actuators

(2019) Bo Zuo et al.   Nature Communications

Multi-stimuli-responsive programmable biomimetic actuator

(2019) Yue Dong et al.   Nature Communications

Flexible and Super-Sensitive Moisture-Responsive Actuators by Dispersing Graphene Oxide into Three-Dimensional Structures of Nanofibers and Silver Nanowires

(2019) Chenxue Xiang et al.   ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Kirigami‐Based Light‐Induced Shape‐Morphing and Locomotion

(2019) Yu‐Chieh Cheng et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Graphene-based Janus film with improved sensitive response capacity for smart actuators

(2018) Wenzheng Zhang et al.   SENSORS AND ACTUATORS B-CHEMICAL

3D printing of robotic soft actuators with programmable bioinspired architectures

(2018) Manuel Schaffner et al.   Nature Communications

Printing ferromagnetic domains for untethered fast-transforming soft materials

(2018) Yoonho Kim et al.   NATURE

Small-scale soft-bodied robot with multimodal locomotion

(2018) Wenqi Hu et al.   NATURE

A readily programmable, fully reversible shape-switching material

(2018) Matthew K. McBride et al.   Science Advances

Soft Radio-Frequency Identification Sensors: Wireless Long-Range Strain Sensors Using Radio-Frequency Identification

(2018) Lijun Teng et al.   Soft Robotics

A flexible metallic actuator using reduced graphene oxide as a multifunctional component

(2017) Junxing Meng et al.   Nanoscale

A light-driven artificial flytrap

(2017) Owies M. Wani et al.   Nature Communications

An autonomous actuator driven by fluctuations in ambient humidity

(2016) Hiroki Arazoe et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Mimosa Origami: A nanostructure-enabled directional self-organization regime of materials

(2016) W. S. Y. Wong et al.   Science Advances

Wearable energy-dense and power-dense supercapacitor yarns enabled by scalable graphene–metallic textile composite electrodes

(2015) Libin Liu et al.   Nature Communications

Gait Study and Pattern Generation of a Starfish-Like Soft Robot with Flexible Rays Actuated by SMAs

(2014) Shixin Mao et al.   Journal of Bionic Engineering

A spongy graphene based bimorph actuator with ultra-large displacement towards biomimetic application

(2014) Ying Hu et al.   Nanoscale

Meshworm: A Peristaltic Soft Robot With Antagonistic Nickel Titanium Coil Actuators

(2013) Sangok Seok et al.   IEEE-ASME TRANSACTIONS ON MECHATRONICS

Electromechanical Actuator with Controllable Motion, Fast Response Rate, and High-Frequency Resonance Based on Graphene and Polydiacetylene

(2012) Jiajie Liang et al.   ACS Nano

GoQBot: a caterpillar-inspired soft-bodied rolling robot

(2011) Huai-Ti Lin et al.   Bioinspiration & Biomimetics

Graphene and Graphene Oxide: Synthesis, Properties, and Applications

(2010) Yanwu Zhu et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS