In conventional classification, soft robots feature mechanical compliance as the main
distinguishing factor from traditional robots made of rigid materials. Recent advances in …

Natural organisms offer abundant inspiration for designing and fabricating hydrogel robots
with autonomous and intelligent behaviors, including motion, perception, and response to …

Inspired by shape‐morphing organisms in nature, researchers have developed various
hydrogels with stimuli‐responsive swelling, shrinking, bending, folding, origami, rolling …

Nature endows numerous organisms with the ability to realize their basic physiological
activities through stimulus-responsive actuation. Inspired by these interesting biological …

Small-scale magnetic soft-bodied robots can be designed to operate based on different
locomotion modes to navigate and function inside unstructured, confined and varying …

Driven by advances in soft material science, magnetic soft robots have recently attracted
significant attention owing to their remarkable reprogramming deformations under magnetic …

Magnetic soft materials (MSMs) have a rising requirement in self-powered stress sensors
and energy harvesters due to the considerable flexibility and force-driven variable magnetic …

Soft robotics has received substantial attention due to its remarkable deformability, making it
well-suited for a wide range of applications in complex environments, such as medicine …

The synchronization and group behaviors of self-excited coupled oscillators are common in
nature and deserve to be explored, for self-excited motions have the advantages of actively …

Self-sustained oscillations can directly absorb energy from the constant environment to
maintain its periodic motion by self-regulating. As a classical mechanical instability …