Bioinspired light-fueled water-walking soft robots based on liquid crystal network actuators with polymerizable miniaturized gold nanorods

Water-repellent legs of water striders

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Life Sciences, Entomology, Soil-water Relations +5

Small-scale soft-bodied robot with multimodal locomotion

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Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Robotics Engineering +14

Self-powered soft robot in the Mariana Trench

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Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Robotics Engineering +11

Fast liquid-crystal elastomer swims into the dark

Miguel A. Camacho‐López, Heino Finkelmann, Peter Palffy‐Muhoray et al. · Nature Materials · 2004 · 999 citations

Natural Sciences, Materials Engineering, Materials Science +8

Structured light enables biomimetic swimming and versatile locomotion of photoresponsive soft microrobots

Stefano Palagi, Andrew G. Mark, Shang Yik Reigh et al. · Nature Materials · 2016 · 962 citations · Full text

Engineering, Bioengineering, Robotics Engineering +16