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Figure 3. LCP collectives connected physically or via capillary forces. (A) Connected LCP oscillators with Huygens’ synchrony. They can oscillate in in-phase or anti-phase modes. Reproduced with permission^[67]. Copyright 2021, Springer Nature. (B) Coupled photo-oscillators excited with two orthogonal laser beams. Reproduced with permission under the CC BY 4.0 license^[70]. Copyright 2024, The Authors, published by Wiley-VCH. (C) Liquid crystal polymer actuators with reconfigurable assembly driven by optocapillarity. (D) Numerical simulation of the Gibbs free energy in the two-actuator system during the transformation. Reproduced with permission under the CC BY 4.0 license^[71]. Copyright 2020, The Authors, published by Springer Nature.