Untethered soft robotic matter with passive control of shape morphing and propulsion

Light or thermally-powered autonomous rolling of an elastomer rod

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

Soft Ultrathin Electronics Innervated Adaptive Fully Soft Robots

(2018) Chengjun Wang et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

3D Printing of Liquid Crystal Elastomeric Actuators with Spatially Programed Nematic Order

(2018) Arda Kotikian et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Harnessing bistability for directional propulsion of soft, untethered robots

(2018) Tian Chen et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Patterning nonisometric origami in nematic elastomer sheets

(2018) Paul Plucinsky et al.   Soft Matter

Layered liquid crystal elastomer actuators

(2018) Tyler Guin et al.   Nature Communications

Assembly of Advanced Materials into 3D Functional Structures by Methods Inspired by Origami and Kirigami: A Review

(2018) Xin Ning et al.   Advanced Materials Interfaces

Design, fabrication and control of origami robots

(2018) Daniela Rus et al.   Nature Reviews Materials

Small-scale soft-bodied robot with multimodal locomotion

(2018) Wenqi Hu et al.   NATURE

A Dexterous, Glove-Based Teleoperable Low-Power Soft Robotic Arm for Delicate Deep-Sea Biological Exploration

(2018) Brennan T. Phillips et al.   Scientific Reports

Molecularly-Engineered, 4D-Printed Liquid Crystal Elastomer Actuators

(2018) Mohand O. Saed et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

All-Optical Control of Shape

(2018) Brian R. Donovan et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Multiresponsive polymeric microstructures with encoded predetermined and self-regulated deformability

(2018) Yuxing Yao et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Light-Driven, Caterpillar-Inspired Miniature Inching Robot

(2017) Hao Zeng et al.   MACROMOLECULAR RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

4D Printed Actuators with Soft-Robotic Functions

(2017) María López-Valdeolivas et al.   MACROMOLECULAR RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

Unexpected hardening effects in bilayered gel beams

(2017) Paola Nardinocchi et al.   MECCANICA

Dimension reduction via $$\Gamma $$ Γ -convergence for soft active materials

(2017) Virginia Agostiniani et al.   MECCANICA

Making waves in a photoactive polymer film

(2017) Anne Helene Gelebart et al.   NATURE

3D printed reversible shape changing soft actuators assisted by liquid crystal elastomers

(2017) Chao Yuan et al.   Soft Matter

Hydraulic hydrogel actuators and robots optically and sonically camouflaged in water

(2017) Hyunwoo Yuk et al.   Nature Communications

Synthesis of Elastomeric Liquid Crystalline Polymer Networks via Chain Transfer

(2017) Nicholas P. Godman et al.   ACS Macro Letters

Sequential self-folding of polymer sheets

(2017) Ying Liu et al.   Science Advances

Humidity- and Photo-Induced Mechanical Actuation of Cross-Linked Liquid Crystal Polymers

(2016) Yuyun Liu et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

An integrated design and fabrication strategy for entirely soft, autonomous robots

(2016) Michael Wehner et al.   NATURE

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

(2016) Stefano Palagi et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Automatic design of fiber-reinforced soft actuators for trajectory matching

(2016) Fionnuala Connolly et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A three-dimensional actuated origami-inspired transformable metamaterial with multiple degrees of freedom

(2016) Johannes T.B. Overvelde et al.   Nature Communications

Smart three-dimensional lightweight structure triggered from a thin composite sheet via 3D printing technique

(2016) Quan Zhang et al.   Scientific Reports

Multi-shape active composites by 3D printing of digital shape memory polymers

(2016) Jiangtao Wu et al.   Scientific Reports

Design, fabrication and control of soft robots

(2015) Daniela Rus et al.   NATURE

Voxelated liquid crystal elastomers

(2015) Taylor H. Ware et al.   SCIENCE

Materials that couple sensing, actuation, computation, and communication

(2015) M. A. McEvoy et al.   SCIENCE

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

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

Programming Reversibly Self-Folding Origami with Micropatterned Photo-Crosslinkable Polymer Trilayers

(2014) Jun-Hee Na et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

A method for building self-folding machines

(2014) S. Felton et al.   SCIENCE

Active origami by 4D printing

(2014) Qi Ge et al.   Smart Materials and Structures

A Resilient, Untethered Soft Robot

(2014) Michael T. Tolley et al.   Soft Robotics

Liquid single crystal elastomer/conducting polymer bilayer composite actuator: modelling and experiments

(2013) Francesco Greco et al.   Soft Matter

Shape-responsive liquid crystal elastomer bilayers

(2013) Aditya Agrawal et al.   Soft Matter

Soft robotics: a bioinspired evolution in robotics

(2013) Sangbae Kim et al.   TRENDS IN BIOTECHNOLOGY

A Positive Pressure Universal Gripper Based on the Jamming of Granular Material

(2012) John R. Amend et al.   IEEE Transactions on Robotics

Omega-Shaped Inchworm-Inspired Crawling Robot With Large-Index-and-Pitch (LIP) SMA Spring Actuators

(2012) Je-Sung Koh et al.   IEEE-ASME TRANSACTIONS ON MECHATRONICS

Soft Robotics for Chemists

(2011) Filip Ilievski et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Multigait soft robot

(2011) R. F. Shepherd et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Programmable matter by folding

(2010) E. Hawkes et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A review on dielectric elastomer actuators, technology, applications, and challenges

(2008) Ailish O’Halloran et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS