Somatosensitive soft crawling robotics is highly desired for load carrying and multi-terrain locomotion. The motor-driven skeleton robots and pneumatic robots are effective and well-developed, while the bulk size, rigidity, or complexity limit their ...
Tensile and torsional artificial muscles from biocompatible and biodegradable materials are highly desired for soft robotics, sensors, and controllers in bio-related applications. Twisted fibers can be used to prepare tensile and torsional artificial...
The swim bladder is crucial to underwater robots to enhance their overall performance and to expand their range of motion. However, previous attempts to incorporate this function have failed or have adopted mechanical swim bladders with high-disturba...
The data processing efficiency of traditional computers is suffering from the intrinsic limitation of physically separated processing and memory units. Logic-in-memory and brain-inspired neuromorphic computing are promising in-memory computing paradi...
Artificial intelligence, especially machine learning (ML) and deep learning (DL) algorithms, is becoming an important tool in the fields of materials and mechanical engineering, attributed to its power to predict materials properties, design de novo ...
Soft robots that can move like living organisms and adapt to their surroundings are currently in the limelight from fundamental studies to technological applications, due to their advances in material flexibility, human-friendly interaction, and biol...
A leaf is a free-standing photocatalytic system that can effectively harvest solar energy and convert CO and HO into carbohydrates in a continuous manner without the need for regeneration or tedious product extraction steps. Despite encouraging advan...