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  • A self-powered robot inspired by a fish can survive the extreme pressures at the bottom of the ocean’s deepest trench, thanks to its soft body and distributed electronic system — and might enable exploration of the uncharted ocean.

    • Cecilia Laschi
    • Marcello Calisti
    News & Views
    Nature
    Volume: 591, P: 35-36

  • Living organisms surpass robots in durability and adaptability. This Review explores animal and plant energy-saving strategies to inspire resilient, low-energy robots and emphasizes the cost of transport as a key metric in relation to the durability of various movement modalities.

    • Barbara Mazzolai
    • Emanuela Del Dottore
    • Cecilia Laschi
    Reviews
    Nature Reviews Bioengineering
    Volume: 3, P: 921-938

  • Pine cones deform ultraslowly as humidity changes, which is mostly driven by the spring-shaped and square microtubular heterostructure of the vascular bundles. This mechanism inspires the development of soft actuators with imperceptible but efficient motion under environmental stimuli.

    • Cecilia Laschi
    • Barbara Mazzolai
    News & Views
    Nature Materials
    Volume: 21, P: 1350-1351

  • High pressure and low temperature are the greatest challenges faced by scientists to explore deep oceans, which remain largely unknow to us today. Li et al. review these challenges and give insight into designing soft robots, inspired by deep-sea creatures, that enable resilient operations in harsh conditions.

    • Guorui Li
    • Tuck-Whye Wong
    • Tiefeng Li
    ReviewsOpen Access
    Nature Communications
    Volume: 14, P: 1-10

  • Modelling soft-robot deformations induced by actuators and interactions with the surrounding environment can enable full uptake of embodied intelligence. This Technical Review provides a concise guide to modelling approaches and computational strategies that can lead to model-informed design of embodied intelligent robots.

    • Gianmarco Mengaldo
    • Federico Renda
    • Cecilia Laschi
    Reviews
    Nature Reviews Physics
    Volume: 4, P: 595-610

  • Soft robots have broad applications in medicine. In this Review, biomedical applications, including surgery, drug delivery, prostheses, wearable devices and artificial organs, are discussed in the context of materials, actuation strategies and challenges.

    • Matteo Cianchetti
    • Cecilia Laschi
    • Paolo Dario
    Reviews
    Nature Reviews Materials
    Volume: 3, P: 143-153