A research team led by Assistant Professor Shi Ye at Zhejiang University–University of Illinois Urbana Champaign Institute (ZJUI) has reported a major breakthrough in soft robotics, with their latest findings published in Science Robotics. Peng Junbo, a 2022 doctoral student from Zhejiang University and Zhuo Jiangshan, a 2024 doctoral student from Zhejiang University are co–first authors of the study, with Assistant Professor Shi Ye and Prof. Li Tiefeng from the School of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Zhejiang University, serving as co–corresponding authors.