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Yangyang Peng is a rising leader in the field of smart textiles and soft robotics, pioneering the development of high-performance yarn-based artificial muscles and intelligent sensing fabrics. Their research focuses on hierarchical structuring and sheath–core coupling to create fasciated yarn artificial muscles with exceptional actuation capabilities, as demonstrated in their highly cited 2023 work (52 citations) that enables versatile textile actuators. Peng has also advanced eco-friendly fabrication strategies, producing free-standing single-helical woolen yarn artificial muscles with robust, trainable humidity-sensing actuation (17 citations). In healthcare applications, their yarn-grouping weaving approach for pneumatic soft robotics achieves directional inflation, bilateral bending, and self-sensing (14 citations), while their recent 2025 work on reconfigurable weaving meso-structures enables multiplexed sensing textiles for intricate kinematic posture recognition and thermal therapy (7 citations). Peng’s contributions are distinguished by their innovative integration of textile engineering with responsive materials, yielding robust, programmable, and multifunctional systems that bridge soft robotics, wearable electronics, and healthcare. Their work is rapidly gaining recognition for its potential to transform interactive textiles and assistive technologies.