But also smart materials, for instance, materials that can adapt, change, depending on an external signal, just like our body functions.

还有智能材料，这种材料可以根据外部信号来适应、改变，就像我们的身体机能一样。

Advances in learning algorithms and smart building materials could allow us to tailor structures to their environments, minimizing local impact.

学习算法和智能建筑材料的进步可以让我们根据环境定制结构，最大限度地减少对当地的影响。

Whether it's bending, contracting, or wriggling along, these kinds of smart materials could be useful for robotics, engineering and medicine.

无论是弯曲、收缩还是蠕动，这些智能材料都可用于机器人、工程和医学。

And moreover, there's been the recent discovery of light-sensing molecules in the skin of octopus which may pave the way to, eventually, smart materials that sense and respond on their own.

此外，最近在章鱼皮肤中发现了感光分子， 这可能为最终开发出能够自行感知和做出反应的智能材料铺平道路。