The Mechano‑X Workshop 2026, held from January 5 to 7 at Tsinghua University Southeast Asia Center (Tsinghua SEA), Bali, Indonesia, brought together distinguished scholars from around the world for three days of invited lectures, poster presentations, and interactive discussions. The workshop enabled intensive knowledge exchange at the frontiers of mechanics, materials science, biology, and th...

The team from School of Aerospace Engineering of Tsinghua University recently won the championship with their outstanding score in the 13th Global Trajectory Optimisation Competition (GTOC). The team also won the right to host the 14th edition of the competition.This edition of competition attracted 101 teams from all over the world to participate. The theme of this competition is " Humanity’s...

Transforming machines capable of continuous 3D shape morphing and locking.Inspired by natural species that leverage morphological changes to realize multiple locomotion modes, diverse multimodal robots have been reported. While developments of small-scale actuators with continuous shape morphing and locking capabilities controlled by the same energy source are crucial for miniaturization of unt...