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Shanyuan Song is pioneering the frontier of bio-inspired robotics, with a focus on aerial-aquatic systems, soft actuators, and fluid manipulation. His most notable contribution is the development of a self-contained aerial-aquatic hitchhiking robot capable of crossing the air-water boundary and attaching to surfaces, a breakthrough for long-term marine observation and cross-medium operations (197 citations). He also created a versatile jellyfish-like robotic platform that achieves noise-free underwater propulsion and gentle manipulation, addressing critical needs in environmental monitoring (164 citations). Further advancing soft robotics, Song engineered a soft-robotic ciliated epidermis for reconfigurable fluid manipulation on complex 3D substrates (49 citations) and introduced cilia-like transducers that concurrently actuate and sense fluid, mimicking biological motile cilia. His work on Yoshimura tubular origami mechanisms also explores deployable structures for engineering applications. With over 400 total citations, Song’s research uniquely combines biological inspiration with practical engineering, offering transformative tools for underwater exploration, environmental sensing, and non-invasive interactions with marine life.