Soft Robotics: Leveraging Monostable and Bistable Pre‐Curved Bilayer Actuators for High‐Performance Multitask Soft Robots (Adv. Mater. Technol. 9/2020)

By utilizing the stress-relaxation strategy in soft bilayer beam and plate, Jie Yin and co-workers design pre-curved bending actuators with tunable monostability and bistability. In article number 2000370, they demonstrate leveraging tunable instability for multifunctional soft robots in energy-saving grippers, fast jumping crawler, and fast jelly-fish-like swimmer.