Autonomous Soft Actuators: An Autonomous Soft Actuator with Light‐Driven Self‐Sustained Wavelike Oscillation for Phototactic Self‐Locomotion and Power Generation (Adv. Funct. Mater. 15/2020)

Abstract

In article number 1908842, Ying Hu and co-workers construct an artificially autonomous soft robot based on a curled droplet-shaped carbon nanotube bimorph structure, which can produce a constant white light-driven continuous oscillating motion in a wavelike fashion. It can also autonomously and continuously crawl towards the light source in a wave-propagating manner under constant light irradiation, exhibiting phototactic self-locomotion.