Bio‐Inspired Soft‐Rigid Hybrid Smart Artificial Muscle Based on Liquid Crystal Elastomer and Helical Metal Wire (Small 17/2023)

Bio-Inspired Soft-Rigid Hybrid Smart Artificial Muscle In article number 2206342, Hongmiao Tian and co-workers propose a soft-rigid hybrid smart artificial muscle (SRH-SAM), which ingeniously coordinates the actuation, load-bearing, and sensory systems. Based on the SRH-SAM, an advanced approach for a reconfigurable blazed grating plane and a new strategy for controllable attachment/detachment transformation in the field of bionic dry adhesion are completed. This study exhibits a promising prospect for the development of artificial muscles.