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Daseul Lim is a pioneering researcher at the intersection of bioinspired materials, soft robotics, and deployable electronics. Her work focuses on translating nature’s engineering principles—from insect mechanoreceptors to crack-based sensing in spider legs—into robust, high-performance robotic systems. Lim’s most impactful contribution is the development of an ultra-stable, tough crack-based tactile sensor for small legged robots (68 citations), a breakthrough that addresses critical durability and sensitivity challenges for sub-kilogram robots. She further advanced the field with a comprehensive review on nature’s blueprint for bioinspired robotic materials (47 citations), and demonstrated real-time flight control in flapping-wing drones using wing-strain sensing and reinforcement learning (42 citations). Her research on rigidity-tunable materials and fatigue-resistant deployable electronics (17 and 12 citations, respectively) pushes the boundaries of soft engineering systems and space-efficient robotics. Lim’s work is notable for its direct application to small-scale, agile robots—enabling stable locomotion, adaptive flight, and robust packaging—earning her recognition as a rising leader in bioinspired and soft robotic design.