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Jiao Ye is a pioneering researcher in the field of soft robotics, with a primary focus on the innovative application of gallium-based liquid metals (LM) to create bio-inspired, multifunctional machines. Ye’s major contributions center on harnessing the unique properties of liquid metals—such as high conductivity, deformability, and catalytic reactivity—to develop entirely soft actuation and logic systems. Notably, Ye led the creation of "LM-Jelly," a biomimetic robotic jellyfish (82 citations) that integrates a liquid metal coil with magnetic fields for underwater surveillance, marking a first in soft robotics. Other key works include liquid metal-enabled soft logic devices (36 citations) and plant-injectable electronics (30 citations), demonstrating versatility across environments. Ye has also advanced practical fabrication methods, such as spray-printing for dielectric elastomer actuators, and pioneered a soft jumping module that uses LM-activated hydrogen for explosion-driven motion. With a growing body of work that bridges materials science, robotics, and bioinspiration, Ye’s research is shaping the future of autonomous, fully soft machines with significant implications for exploration, medicine, and environmental monitoring.