Stiffness tunable advanced materials have demonstrated their superiority and versatility in
diverse areas, while the global pursuit of reversible, intelligent, and fast response for …

Numerous recent advances in robotics have been inspired by the biological principle of
tensile integrity—or “tensegrity”—to achieve remarkable feats of dexterity and resilience …

Biological organisms such as the octopus can reconfigure their shape and properties to
perform diverse tasks. However, soft machines struggle to achieve complex configurations …

Tensegrity structures provide both structural integrity and flexibility through the combination
of stiff struts and a network of flexible tendons. These structures exhibit useful properties …

Shape memory composites are fascinating materials with the ability to preserve deformed
shapes that recover when triggered by certain external stimuli. Although elastomers are not …

Cable-driven continuum robots with hyper-redundant deformable backbones show great
promise in applications, such as inspection in unstructured environments, where traditional …

Cable-driven continuum robots exhibit accessing and manipulation capabilities in
constrained and cluttered environments that are unachievable for traditional robots …

Soft robots are well-suited for human-centric applications, but the compliance that gives soft
robots this advantage must also be paired with adequate stiffness modulation such that soft …

Polymer-based self-powered wearable sensing devices are easily destroyed under harsh
mechanical shocks which largely restricts the development of smart electronic device …

Recent advances in active materials and fabrication techniques have enabled the
production of cyclically self-deployable metamaterials with an expanded functionality space …