Progress and prospective of the soft robots with the magnetic response

The flexible soft robots with the magnetic response are widely studied because of their light weight, fast and accurate response, strong adaptability and other excellent characteristics. Therefore, we summarize some advances in the soft robots with the magnetic response from five aspects: structures types, preparation methods, magnetic programming methods, the controlled methods of the magnetic fields and the application fields of the soft robots with the magnetic response. The latest progress in the types of structures and preparation methods used to design the soft robots with the magnetic response have been discussed. The types of the magnetic programming and the controlled methods of the magnetic fields for the soft robots with the magnetic response have been introduced in detail. Meanwhile, the applications of the soft robots with the magnetic response in the bionics and biomedicine fields have also been discussed, which provide references for the subsequent practical and potential applications.