Long-term, high-efficacy and highly compatible interfaces between human bodies and machines are critical to both addressing grand societal challenges such as healthcare and answering great scientific questions such as understanding human brain. We propose to understand and exploit soft materials technology – polymers, elastomers, hydrogels and biological tissues with designed properties – to form the interfaces between human bodies and machines. In this Extreme Mechanics Letters (EML) webinar (Zhao, 2020), we discussed the design of soft materials to achieve extreme mechanical properties, which are crucial to forming such long-term, high-efficacy and highly compatible interfaces that can potentially merge humans and machines and their intelligence ultimately. EML Webinar speakers and videos are updated at https://imechanica.org/node/24098.

人体与机器​​之间的长期，高效和高度兼容的界面对于解决诸如医疗保健等重大社会挑战以及回答诸如理解人脑等重大科学问题均至关重要。我们建议了解和开发软材料技术–具有设计特性的聚合物，弹性体，水凝胶和生物组织–形成人体与机器​​之间的界面。在“极限力学快报”（EML）网络研讨会（Zhao，2020年）中，我们讨论了实现极限机械性能的软材料设计，这对于形成可以长期整合人类的长期，高效和高度兼容的界面至关重要以及机器及其最终的智能。EML网络研讨会的演讲者和视频在https://imechanica.org/node/24098上进行了更新。