Activity and autonomous motion are fundamental in living and engineering systems. This
has stimulated the new field of'active matter'in recent years, which focuses on the physical …

Swimming microorganisms switch between locomotory gaits to enable complex navigation
strategies such as run-and-tumble to explore their environments and search for specific …

We formulate and solve the equations governing the dynamics of a microscopic artificial
swimmer composed of a head and of a tail made of a thin film of permanent magnetic …

The use of machine learning techniques in the development of microscopic swimmers has
drawn considerable attention in recent years. In particular, reinforcement learning has been …

The process of swimming at the microscopic scale is successfully described as a finite-
dimensional, nonholonomic control system due to negligible inertia in the low-Reynolds …

The inertialess fluid–structure interactions of active and passive inextensible filaments and
slender-rods are ubiquitous in nature, from the dynamics of semi-flexible polymers and …

Ionic polymer-metal composites (IPMCs) are electrically driven materials that undergo
bending deformations in the presence of relatively low external voltages, exhibiting a great …

We discuss some recent results on biological and bio-inspired morphing, and use them to
identify promising research directions for the future. In particular, we consider issues related …

Micron-scale swimmers move in the realm of negligible inertia, dominated by viscous drag
forces. In this paper, we formulate the leading-order dynamics of a slender multi-link (N-link) …

The wheeled three-link snake model is a well-known example of an underactuated robotic
system whose motion can be kinematically controlled by periodic changes of its internal …