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Multifunctional Untethered Soft Machines Driven by 4D Printed Electrically Responsive Actuators
ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
2025
Volume 17, Issue 24, Pages 36059–36068
Untethered robots, compared with their tethered counterparts, may bring enhanced autonomy. It is highly desirable to engineer multifunctional, lightweight, rapid, and low-voltage driven untethered soft robots that have enhanced adaptability and safer interaction capabilities. Here we present an untethered soft robot by a smart integration of 4D printed liquid crystalline elastomer (LCE) actuators with the associated electronics. The LCE artificial muscle, which consists of a modified LCE sandwiched between a polyimide based heating film and a silicone adhesive, not only has adjustable transition temperatures (39–46 °C) and modulus (0.61–2.57 MPa) but also has decent mechanical properties such as adequate rigidity…