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Total Citations
38
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About
Zhiyuan Weng is a leading researcher in bio-inspired robotics and adhesive systems, whose work bridges the gap between biological attachment mechanisms and engineered climbing and grasping technologies. His primary research areas include gecko-inspired hierarchical adhesives, soft robotics for wall-climbing, and switchable adhesion systems that combine principles from geckos and octopuses. Weng’s major contributions include the design of a reversible adhesive bio-toe with hierarchical structure (2023, 12 citations), which elucidates the structure-function relationship underlying agile locomotion in adhesive animals. He also developed a gecko-inspired robot with soft feet and digits enhanced by gravity compensation (2024, 8 citations), addressing critical challenges in multi-legged arboreal locomotion. His innovative gecko-inspired adhesive gripper with contact sensing (2025, 5 citations) enables grasping from convex to flat surfaces, while his adaptive and robust switchable adhesion system (2025, 5 citations) synergistically integrates van der Waals forces and negative pressure for versatile surface adaptation. Weng’s work on rigid-flexible coupling adhesive units (2022) and fabrication methods for flexible multi-cavity adhesive units (2022) has advanced the practical implementation of bio-inspired adhesives in industrial grippers and climbing robots. His research has accumulated over 38 citations, demonstrating significant impact in the field of biomimetic robotics and adhesive engineering.
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- 1Reversible Adhesive Bio-Toe with Hierarchical Structure Inspired by Gecko12 citations · 2023
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