In contrast to conventional hard actuators, soft actuators offer many vivid advantages, such
as improved flexibility, adaptability, and reconfigurability, which are intrinsic to living …

Magnetoactive soft materials (MSMs) are soft polymeric composites filled with magnetic
particles that are an emerging class of smart and multifunctional materials with immense …

Reprogrammable magneto-responsive soft actuators capable of working in enclosed and
confined spaces and adapting functions under changing situations are highly demanded for …

Shape‐programmable soft materials that exhibit integrated multifunctional shape
manipulations, including reprogrammable, untethered, fast, and reversible shape …

Magnetically responsive soft materials are soft composites where magnetic fillers are
embedded into soft polymeric matrices. These active materials have attracted extensive …

Shape memory polymer (SMP) and SMP composites (SMPC) can memorize the permanent
shape and recover from the temporary shape to the permanent shape when stimulated by …

There is ever-increasing interest yet grand challenge in developing programmable
untethered soft robotics. Here we address this challenge by applying the asymmetric …

Dynamic shape-morphing soft materials systems are ubiquitous in living organisms; they are
also of rapidly increasing relevance to emerging technologies in soft machines,–, flexible …

Soft robotics aims at creating systems with improved performance of movement and
adaptability in unknown, challenging, environments and with higher level of safety during …

Liquid crystal elastomers (LCEs) are a class of stimuli‐responsive materials that have been
intensively studied for applications including artificial muscles, shape morphing structures …