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Yide Liu is a pioneering researcher at the intersection of soft robotics, bioinspired engineering, and advanced materials. His work centers on developing high-performance, untethered robots and functional hydrogels for biomedical and micromanipulation applications. Liu’s major contributions include the invention of a 3D printing method for tough, multifunctional particle-based double-network hydrogels (72 citations), enabling the fabrication of artificial cartilages and soft robots with unprecedented mechanical resilience. He also designed the S²worm, a fast-moving untethered insect-scale robot with a two-degree-of-freedom transmission mechanism (37 citations), and developed a bistable rotating mechanism using dielectric elastomer actuators (26 citations), advancing soft actuator design. His notable achievements include creating a miniature origami robot for biological micromanipulations (19 citations) and a bioinspired underwater microrobot with multimotion modalities (12 citations), both published in 2025. Liu’s work on singularity analysis for origami transmission mechanisms (10 citations) further underscores his impact on insect-scale robotics. With over 190 total citations across his top papers, Liu is shaping the future of agile, adaptive robots and functional materials for real-world challenges.