Bio-inspired combinable self-powered soft device operating during the disintegration and reconstruction for next-generation artificial electric organs

•The device can be disassembled, and their components can continue to operate during the period of reconstruction.The systemic combinable ability and the structural combinable ability of this device can ensure that this device can continue to operate in case of damage without self-repair, and the undamaged part can work during the reconstruction.•The current-voltage-time relationships and ion transport mechanism are revealed, and the effects of the number of cation-selective groups and anion-selective groups on the electrical properties are evaluated respectively.•This device exhibits excellent capabilities that it not only can respond to twisting, bending and folding, but it can recognize the external environment either in a rapid or slow collision by the electrical signals, consequently realizing the programmable intelligent identification under the condition of general collision. Furthermore, the device can be employed to recognize music information and monitor human speaking movements.•These advantages make the device bring new inspiration to feedback systems, power transformers, artificial intelligence systems, soft robotics, wearable devices, implanted electronics with flexible characteristics matching biological tissues, etc.