May 2022:

Rotini-like intelligent soft robots by Yao Zhao

Reported by over 30 news outlets

Selected news reports

World Economic Forum “Meet the revolutionary robot that’s shaped like pasta”

New Scientist “Pasta-shaped robot with no moving parts can navigate through mazes”

Popular Mechanics “Watch this past-shaped robot twist through a maze”

The Daily Beast “Watch this noodle-shaped robot autonomously escape a maze”

COSMOS “Pasta-shaped soft robot that is self-powered and escapes mazes”

Futurity “Noodle bot gets through mazes on its own”

TECHNOLOGY.ORG “Soft ‘rotini’ robots navigate with a snap”

China Science Daily “‘螺蛳粉’机器人自主穿迷宫”

January 2022:

Non-destructive kirigami grippers by Yaoye Hong

Reported by over 25 news outlets in Australia, Brazil, China, Germany, UK, and US etc.,

Selected news reports

NSF Research News “Researchers create grippers capable of grabbing and lifting delicate objects”

IEEE RAS Robotics Podcast Interview “Paper folding-inspired grippers” Clip

ScienceDaily “Kirigami robotic grippers are delicate enough to lift egg yolk”

Futurity “Gentle robotic gripper can lift egg yolk without breaking them”

Science Net & SOHU News “超灵巧机械手轻松抓蛋黄”

September 2021:

Metamorphic architected matter by Yanbin Li

Reported by over 5 news outlets

Phys.Org “Inspired by metamorphosis, researchers create materials for shape-shifting architectures”

BlueBeam “How shape-shifting materials can support metamorphosing structures in construction”

ScholarSet ““变态”剪纸：看我七十二变”

August 2021:

3D Modular Kirigami-based programmable metamaterials by Yanbin Li

Reported by over 10 news outlets in Australia, Russia, US, and UK, etc.,

Selected news reports

VOA Russian & Current Time TV “Техника киригами вдохновила ученых на создание зданий-«трансформеров”

Materials Today “Kirigami offers simple approach to building complex 3D structures”

Phys.Org “Researchers design three-dimensional kirigami building blocks to make dynamic metamaterials”

Futurity “3D kirigami blocks can fold into 300,000 designs”

ScholarSet “当剪纸遇上榫卯：可拆卸超材料”

July 2020

Fast jellyfish-inspired soft robots by Yinding Chi

Reported by over 15 news outlets in China, India, Russia, Spain, US, UK, etc.,

Selected news reports

New Atlas “Air powered robotic jellyfish outpaces its real-life rivals”

Science Daily “Jellyfish-inspired soft robots can outswim their natural counterparts”

Naked Science “Вдохновленные медузами мягкие роботы превзошли живых собратьев”

May 2020

Cheetah-inspired high-speed soft running robot by Yichao Tang

Reported by over 24 news outlets in Brazil, Canada, China, France, India, Germany, Portugal, UK, US, etc.,

Selected news reports

ASME Magazine “Superman of soft robot”

NSF Research News “Inspired by cheetahs, researchers build fastest soft robots yet”

The Science Breaker “Cheetah-inspired soft robots: how to make robots run fast”

IEEE RAS Robotics Podcast Interview “The fastest soft robot”

Yahoo! Finance “This flexible robot is a speedy runner and not a bad swimmer”

The Indian Express “Scientists make fastest soft robots based on biomechanics of a cheetah”

ZAP.aeiou “Inspirados na chita, cientistas desenvolvem o robô macio mais rápido de sempre”

Futura-Sciences “Voici le robot mou le plus rapide du monde”

Heise online “Wie weiche Roboter schneller und kräftiger werden können”

SOHU News “受猎豹启发，研究人员开发出速度最快的软体机器人”

December 2019

Self-folding kirigami machines by Yichao Tang and Yanbin Li

Reported by over 10 news outlets in Australia, Germany, and US, etc.,

NSF Research News “Researchers make reconfigurable robots from self-folding kirigami metamaterials”

INVERSE “Self-folding kirigami robots will curl up in the face of disaster”

COSMOS Magazine “Fold me a machine”

Futurity “PAPER ART INSPIRES ROBOTS THAT GO FROM 2D TO 3D”

ntv “Inspiriert von Kirigami-TechnikSpezielles Papier faltet sich bei Wärme selbst”

TechXplore “Researchers make robots from self-folding kirigami materials”

October 2018

Amphibious climbing soft robots by Yichao Tang

News reported by

Science News “A new soft bot mimics octopuses and inchworms to climb walls”

SCIENCE & VIE “Robots mous : ils débarquent”

January 2017

Programmable kirigami sheets by Yichao Tang

News reported by

Advanced Science News “Adaptive Architecture for Energy-Saving Buildings”