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Ji Min Seok is a rising leader in the emerging field of animate matter and biohybrid robotics, where the boundary between living tissue and synthetic engineering dissolves. His research focuses on creating materials and machines that emulate life’s core properties: activity, adaptability, and autonomy. Seok’s most influential work, the 2025 “Roadmap for animate matter,” has already garnered 11 citations, laying a foundational vision for a new class of nature-inspired, life-like materials. He has made significant technical contributions to the assembly of muscle-powered biohybrid systems, notably developing a “suspended compliant skeleton” that dramatically enhances the force output of skeletal muscle actuators—a critical step toward building stronger, more complex soft robots and biological models. His 2025 study on modular assembly demonstrates a practical path to constructing intricate biohybrid machines. Additionally, Seok’s 2024 work on the biocompatibility of low-cost 3D-printed dental resins opens the door for accessible fabrication of biohybrid actuators. By merging materials science, tissue engineering, and robotics, Ji Min Seok is not just building machines; he is crafting the fundamental design principles for a future where materials can sense, adapt, and act like living organisms.