Nature Communications, Published online: 22 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41467-026-74794-3 Dynamic control of surface textures is limited by static or coarse-patterned approaches, restricting their application in programmable object manipulation and information encoding. This study achieved reversible, spatiotemporally programmable surface wrinkling on a photothermal liquid crystal elastomer bilayer, enabling precise, on-demand surface patterning, object propulsion, self-erasing information encoding,