Functional materials enable soft robots to sense, adapt, and interact with their environment by embedding responsiveness directly into their structure. In our work, we design stimulus‑responsive metamaterials and -fluids that achieve complex, programmable behavior with minimal external control, enabling more adaptive and multifunctional soft robotic systems.

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Biohybrid robots combine synthetic materials with living cells to create systems with unique, biologically driven functions. Our work explores the integration of bone cells in hydrogels to tune mechanical properties and develop new approaches for implant design.

Actuators are essential to soft robotic systems, enabling motion, force generation, and shape change through lightweight, compliant structures capable of large deformations. Our work mainly focuses on pneumatic actuation to create simple, robust soft robotic systems capable of diverse tasks.

Nature’s evolutionary processes inspire our work in soft robotics by revealing efficient, adaptive strategies for sensing, actuation, and control. By abstracting principles from systems such as neural networks and cilia, we aim to develop flexible and resilient robotic systems suited for complex environments.