A collaborative research team from NCSU and Penn has recently developed an autonomous and intelligent twisted soft robot that can self-escape from simple maze-like obstacle courses without any external control and human interventions. The soft robot is made of heat-responsive liquid crystal elastomers with its soft body resembling a translucent rotini. When encountering obstacles, it utilizes the embodied physical intelligence of self-snapping and self-turning for autonomous obstacle negotiation and avoidance. They also show that the robot can self-roll on hot loose sand dunes without getting stuck and slipping, as well as cross hot rocks. It can also harvest thermal energy from environments for self-powered rolling on a car roof and BBQ grills. This work is recently published on the journal of PNAS at https: //doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2200265119.