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  • Inspired by many examples in nature where organisms change shape to concur environments, there is much interest in designing robots that are capable of shape change. Shah et al. demonstrate a method for automatically discovering shape and gait changes for soft robots that can adapt to different terrains.

    • Dylan S. Shah
    • Joshua P. Powers
    • Rebecca Kramer-Bottiglio
    Research
    Nature Machine Intelligence
    Volume: 3, P: 51-59

  • Conductors made of a mixture of liquid and solid domains of Ga–In alloy can be stretched over 1,000%, keeping almost constant conductivity, and used to connect commercial electronic components and realize stretchable multilayer printed circuit boards.

    • Shanliangzi Liu
    • Dylan S. Shah
    • Rebecca Kramer-Bottiglio
    Research
    Nature Materials
    Volume: 20, P: 851-858

  • Upscale fabrication of functionalized microparticles is a pending challenge. Here, Kim et al. exploit the rheology of a thixotropic medium to grind sizeable amounts of raw material into well-defined colloidal dispersions, physically stabilized for further production steps.

    • Sang Yup Kim
    • Shanliangzi Liu
    • Rebecca Kramer-Bottiglio
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Communications
    Volume: 12, P: 1-8

  • Soft actuators are typically confined to a single, predetermined deformation trajectory. Here, the authors report on a bioinspired self-adhesive material which can be attached, detached, and re-attached to expanding soft bodies to render reconfigurable and controllable deformation trajectories.

    • Sang Yup Kim
    • Robert Baines
    • Rebecca Kramer-Bottiglio
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Communications
    Volume: 10, P: 1-8

  • Future robots require compact sensing architectures capable of discerning multiple stimuli. Here, Baines et al., present a multi-modal deformation and temperature sensor which, exploiting the light-to-state mapping, discerns combined stimuli of bending, stretching, compression, and temperature.

    • Robert Baines
    • Fabio Zuliani
    • Jamie Paik
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Communications
    Volume: 14, P: 1-14

  • A design strategy termed ‘adaptive morphogenesis’ enables a robot inspired by aquatic and terrestrial turtles to adapt its limb morphology and gait to specialize for locomotion in different environments.

    • Robert Baines
    • Sree Kalyan Patiballa
    • Rebecca Kramer-Bottiglio
    Research
    Nature
    Volume: 610, P: 283-289

  • To meet the physical demands of a new environment, organisms evolve morphological and behavioural adaptations that specialize their locomotor performance to that niche. This Perspective discusses how robots can emulate — and perhaps even exceed — biological levels of adaptability through shape-morphing mechanisms and complementary control strategies to achieve compressed, rapid and reversible ‘evolution on demand’.

    • Robert Baines
    • Frank Fish
    • Rebecca Kramer-Bottiglio
    Reviews
    Nature Reviews Materials
    Volume: 9, P: 822-835