Inspired by physically adaptive, agile, reconfigurable and multifunctional soft-bodied
animals and human muscles, soft actuators have been developed for a variety of …

Actuators that can convert environmental stimuli into mechanical work are widely used in
intelligent systems, robots, and micromechanics. To produce robust and sensitive actuators …

Liquid crystals are the basis of a pervasive technology of the modern era. Yet, as the display
market becomes commoditized, researchers in industry, government and academia are …

Soft robots outperform the conventional hard robots on significantly enhanced safety,
adaptability, and complex motions. The development of fully soft robots, especially fully from …

Shape‐switching behavior, where a transient stimulus induces an indefinitely stable
deformation that can be recovered on exposure to another transient stimulus, is critical to …

External-stimuli-driven soft actuators overcome several limitations inherent in traditional
mechanical-driven technology considering the coming age of flexible robots, which might …

Liquid crystals (LCs) are soft but smart materials that can adjust its chemical or physical
properties in response to various external stimuli. Using these materials to construct soft …

The sense of touch is involved in nearly all human activities, but information technologies for
displaying tactile sensory information to the skin are rudimentary when compared to state‐of …

Since the modern concepts for virtual and augmented reality are first introduced in the
1960's, the field has strived to develop technologies for immersive user experience in a fully …

Two-dimensional liquid-crystal elastomer (LCE) sheets with preprogrammed topological
defects are prepared by aligning liquid-crystal monomers within micropatterned epoxy …