Shape morphing mechanical metamaterials through reversible plasticity

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Designing minimal and scalable insect-inspired multi-locomotion millirobots

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Programming shape using kirigami tessellations

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Enhanced Variable Stiffness and Variable Stretchability Enabled by Phase‐Changing Particulate Additives

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Phase Changing Materials-Based Variable-Stiffness Tensegrity Structures

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Controllable and reversible tuning of material rigidity for robot applications

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An autonomously electrically self-healing liquid metal–elastomer composite for robust soft-matter robotics and electronics

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Origami-inspired, on-demand deployable and collapsible mechanical metamaterials with tunable stiffness

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Universal inverse design of surfaces with thin nematic elastomer sheets

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Tunable Mechanical Metamaterials through Hybrid Kirigami Structures

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Printing ferromagnetic domains for untethered fast-transforming soft materials

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Bio-inspired pneumatic shape-morphing elastomers

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Multistable kirigami for tunable architected materials

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High thermal conductivity in soft elastomers with elongated liquid metal inclusions

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Stretchable surfaces with programmable 3D texture morphing for synthetic camouflaging skins

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Modular assembly of soft deployable structures and robots

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Variable Stiffness Fiber with Self-Healing Capability

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Morphing Metal and Elastomer Bicontinuous Foams for Reversible Stiffness, Shape Memory, and Self-Healing Soft Machines

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Underwater soft-bodied pulsed-jet thrusters: Actuator modeling and performance profiling

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A kirigami approach to engineering elasticity in nanocomposites through patterned defects

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Reentrant Origami-Based Metamaterials with Negative Poisson’s Ratio and Bistability

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Origami tubes assembled into stiff, yet reconfigurable structures and metamaterials

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

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Pneumatic Networks for Soft Robotics that Actuate Rapidly

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Autonomous Soft Robotic Fish Capable of Escape Maneuvers Using Fluidic Elastomer Actuators

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A 3D steady-state model of a tendon-driven continuum soft manipulator inspired by the octopus arm

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Designing Responsive Buckled Surfaces by Halftone Gel Lithography

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Bending and twisting of soft materials by non-homogenous swelling

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Materials and noncoplanar mesh designs for integrated circuits with linear elastic responses to extreme mechanical deformations

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