Science Robotics

Article	Citations
Early science fiction got microbots surprisingly right	1203
Ted Chiang imagines a computational theory of robots	528
The cold truth about robotics research in the United Kingdom as a Caribbean woman	327
The greatest challenge for prosthetics may be social, not neural, connections	272
High-speed control and navigation for quadrupedal robots on complex and discrete terrain	266
Wireless flow-powered miniature robot capable of traversing tubular structures	246
Ajna: Generalized deep uncertainty for minimal perception on parsimonious robots	233
Culturally competent social robots target inclusion in Africa	219
Robot-mediated haptic feedback outperforms vision in violin duo coordination	218
Coordinated behavior of autonomous microscopic machines through local electronic pulse coupling	215
Monte Carlo tree search with spectral expansion for planning with dynamical systems	182
Biohybrid microrobots regulate colonic cytokines and the epithelium barrier in inflammatory bowel disease	182
Morphological computation and decentralized learning in a swarm of sterically interacting robots	166
From motor control to team play in simulated humanoid football	162
Adaptive active solids	161
Accelerating discovery in natural science laboratories with AI and robotics: Perspectives and challenges	146
Surmounting the ceiling effect of motor expertise by novel sensory experience with a hand exoskeleton	144
Embodied aerial physical interaction: Combining body and brain for robust interaction with unstructured environments	143
Achieving animal endurance in robots through advanced energy storage	143
A self-guided intubation device	142
Autonomous tracking of honey bee behaviors over long-term periods with cooperating robots	137
Toward self-contained bidirectional bionic limbs with high information throughput	132
Modular reconfiguration of DNA origami assemblies using tile displacement	132
The neuromechanics of animal locomotion: From biology to robotics and back	131
Reversible kink instability drives ultrafast jumping in nematodes and soft robots	126

Advancing physical intelligence for autonomous soft robots	120
Crawling, climbing, perching, and flying by FiBa soft robots	120
Remote control of muscle-driven miniature robots with battery-free wireless optoelectronics	119
Wearable robots for the real world need vision	114
Virus-blocking mosquitoes take flight in the fight against dengue	113
Erratum for the Research Article “Restoration of grasping in an upper limb amputee using the myokinetic prosthesis with implanted magnets” by M. Gherardini et al	110
Robotic manipulation of human bipedalism reveals overlapping internal representations of space and time	109
Fly motion vision maximizes signal energy transfer between mechanical input and sensor output	108
A bioinspired revolving-wing drone with passive attitude stability and efficient hovering flight	104
The role of low-cost robots in the future of spaceflight	102
AI search, physician removal: Bronchoscopy robot bridges collaboration in foreign body aspiration	99
Magnetically actuated gearbox for the wireless control of millimeter-scale robots	98
Optogenetic neuromuscular actuation of a miniature electronic biohybrid robot	98
Excitation of natural spinal reflex loops in the sensory-motor control of hand prostheses	97
Neural prosthesis control restores near-normative neuromechanics in standing postural control	96
The codevelopment of soft robotics and assistive technology	95
Representation granularity enables time-efficient autonomous exploration in large, complex worlds	91
Merging motoneuron and postural synergies in prosthetic hand design for natural bionic interfacing	90
Robotically steerable guidewires—Current trends and future directions	85
A pipeline inspection robot for navigating tubular environments in the sub-centimeter scale	84
MOGrip: Gripper for multiobject grasping in pick-and-place tasks using translational movements of fingers	83
Reconfigurable self-assembled DNA devices	83
Understanding humanoid robots could save your life	83
Assistive robotics should seamlessly integrate humans and robots	78
Head-mounted surgical robots are an enabling technology for subretinal injections	77
OpenExo: An open-source modular exoskeleton to augment human function	77
High-tech guardians: Robotics at the heart of the Future Circular Collider	76
Vibrotactile feedback aids prosthesis usability	76
Ultralight, strong, and self-reprogrammable mechanical metamaterials	75
A robotic honeycomb for interaction with a honeybee colony	75
Unlocking aerobatic potential of quadcopters: Autonomous freestyle flight generation and execution	74
Effect of hip abduction assistance on metabolic cost and balance during human walking	73
Bioinspired designer DNA NanoGripper for virus sensing and potential inhibition	73
Increasing the payload capacity of soft robot arms by localized stiffening	73
Tracking and navigation of a microswarm under laser speckle contrast imaging for targeted delivery	73
It is hard to be a robot in the wild	70
Would you risk humanity’s survival on a robot built in two years?	69
Autonomous boat navigation in the real world	68
Enhancing social connectedness with companion robots using AI	68
Explosion-powered eversible tactile displays	68
Teaching robots the art of human social synchrony	65
Clearing away barriers to oral drug delivery	65
Soft robotic artificial left ventricle simulator capable of reproducing myocardial biomechanics	64
Cross-robot behavior adaptation through intention alignment	64
A hyperelastic torque-reversal mechanism for soft joints with compression-responsive transient bistability	64
AI-driven aerial robots advance whale research	63
Magnetic robots make headway in medicine	63
Tracking hand movements with a smart glove	62
The force has limits: Molecular motors in robotics	60
Development of compositionality through interactive learning of language and action of robots	60

Autonomous surface sampling for the Europa Lander mission concept	60
RoboBallet: Planning for multirobot reaching with graph neural networks and reinforcement learning	60
Scalable robot collective resilience by sharing resources	59
Acrobatics at the insect scale: A durable, precise, and agile micro–aerial robot	59
Knowledge before faith is the motto of a robot pope	59
How can educational robots enhance family life? Through careful integration	59
Neuroprosthesis converts brain activity to speech	58
How much initiative should a service robot have?	58
Bot self-destruction memes are no laughing matter in science fiction	57
Deep domain adaptation eliminates costly data required for task-agnostic wearable robotic control	56
Float like a butterfly, swim like a biohybrid neuromuscular robot	55
Good old-fashioned engineering can close the 100,000-year “data gap” in robotics	54
An ingestible capsule for luminance-based diagnosis of mesenteric ischemia	54
Estimating human joint moments unifies exoskeleton control, reducing user effort	53
Electrofluidic fiber muscles	52
Solar-powered shape-changing origami microfliers	52
Surgical embodied intelligence for generalized task autonomy in laparoscopic robot-assisted surgery	51
Self-organizing nervous systems for robot swarms	50
Hexagonal electrohydraulic modules for rapidly reconfigurable high-speed robots	49
A review of learning-based dynamics models for robotic manipulation	48
Robotic manipulation of cardiomyocytes to identify gap junction modifiers for arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy	48
A retrospective of Isaac Asimov at 102 and his Three Laws	47
Soft deployable airless wheel for lunar lava tube intact exploration	45
Reconfigurable aerial robot for subterranean mine inspection	44
Cooperative robotic exploration of a planetary skylight surface and lava cave	43
Dexterous helical magnetic robot for improved endovascular access	43
Biohybrid hand actuated by multiple human muscle tissues	42
Insect-inspired AI for autonomous robots	40
Robot therapy pets get a starring role in Lightyear and in real life	39
Remote magnetic navigation enables precision telesurgery	39
Light-emitting, self-healing robotic fibers	39
Equalizing access: How robotics and AI can transform surgical care worldwide	39
Microscopic robots with onboard digital control	37
User preference optimization for control of ankle exoskeletons using sample efficient active learning	37
Bilateral Back Extensor Exosuit for multidimensional assistance and prevention of spinal injuries	37
Restoration of tactile sensation in bionic hands	36
Visual route following for tiny autonomous robots	36
The original “I, Robot” featured a murderous robot and the Frankenstein complex	36
Erratum for the Research Article “Fully neuromorphic vision and control for autonomous drone flight” by F. Paredes-Vallés et al .	35
Animal robots in the African wilderness: Lessons learned and outlook for field robotics	34
Neuromorphic sequence learning with an event camera on routes through vegetation	34
Understanding brain functional architecture through robotics	34
Wirelessly steerable bioelectronic neuromuscular robots adapting neurocardiac junctions	33
Preventing pressure ulcers by increasing pressure: An unorthodox alternating-pressure mattress	33
Attention-based map encoding for learning generalized legged locomotion	33
Overcoming adversaries in multirobot navigation	33
Robots and animals teaming up in the wild to tackle ecosystem challenges	32
Biohybrid robot contracts like the human iris	32
The Omnia bionic leg with a semipowered knee and ankle wins the Cybathlon 2024 leg prosthesis race	32
Using machine learning and robotics to discover plastic substitutes	32
Reverse engineering the control law for schooling in zebrafish using virtual reality	31
A portable inflatable soft wearable robot to assist the shoulder during industrial work	31
Preventing antisocial robots: A pathway to artificial empathy	31
Enhancing scientific exploration of the deep sea through shared autonomy in remote manipulation	31
Variable-stiffness–morphing wheel inspired by the surface tension of a liquid droplet	31
The future lies in a pair of tactile hands	30
Touching reality: Bridging the user-researcher divide in upper-limb prosthetics	30
Human motor augmentation with an extra robotic arm without functional interference	30
Flow-driven magnetic microcatheter for superselective arterial embolization	30
Would a robot ever get angry enough to attack a person?	29
Modulation of Achilles tendon force with load carriage and exosuit assistance	29
Safe radiation surveillance using uncrewed vehicles	28
Collision-tolerant deformable quadrotor arms	28
Brain-inspired multimodal hybrid neural network for robot place recognition	28
Multimodal soft valve enables physical responsiveness for preemptive resilience of soft robots	28
Resilient odometry via hierarchical adaptation	27
Mechanical neural networks: Architected materials that learn behaviors	27
Understanding the sense of self through robotics	27
Dynamic robotic tracking of underwater targets using reinforcement learning	27
The microDelta: Downscaling robot mechanisms enables ultrafast and high-precision movement	27
Highly agile flat swimming robot	26
Embodying soft robots with octopus-inspired hierarchical suction intelligence	26
Laser-assisted failure recovery for dielectric elastomer actuators in aerial robots	26
Drone-assisted collection of environmental DNA from tree branches for biodiversity monitoring	26
3D-printed digital pneumatic logic for the control of soft robotic actuators	24
Accessing the brain with soft deployable electrocorticography arrays	23
Will your next surgeon be a robot? Autonomy and AI in robotic surgery	23
Photocatalytic microrobots for treating bacterial infections deep within sinuses	22
RoboCap: Robotic mucus-clearing capsule for enhanced drug delivery in the gastrointestinal tract	22
Soft robot–mediated autonomous adaptation to fibrotic capsule formation for improved drug delivery	22

Harnessing the oloid shape in magnetically driven robots to enable high-resolution ultrasound imaging	22
Is intermittent swimming lazy or clever?	21
Teaching a single-arm robot to fold towels	20
Sensor-level computer vision with pixel processor arrays for agile robots	20
Robot Operating System 2: Design, architecture, and uses in the wild	20
The AI Act Grand Challenge shows how autonomous robots will be regulated	19
A gyroscope-free visual-inertial flight control and wind sensing system for 10-mg robots	18
Overcoming the challenges that women in robotics face	18
Robots do not like Asimov’s three laws	18
Lightweight haptic ring delivers high force feedback	18
Virtual elasto-plastic robot compliance to active environments	17
Driver’s licenses for autonomous systems	17
Harnessing emotion and intonation in speech to improve robot acceptance	17
Taking control: Steering the future of biohybrid robots	17
Haptic perception using optoelectronic robotic flesh for embodied artificially intelligent agents	17
Scale-inspired programmable robotic structures with concurrent shape morphing and stiffness variation	17
Erratum for the Research Article “Safety-assured high-speed navigation for MAVs” by Y. Ren et al .	17
Stretchable Arduinos embedded in soft robots	17
SRT-H: A hierarchical framework for autonomous surgery via language-conditioned imitation learning	17
In situ bidirectional human-robot value alignment	17
Robot behavior that can adapt to user interaction	16
Soft robotic patient-specific hydrodynamic model of aortic stenosis and ventricular remodeling	16
Bioinspired, ingestible electroceutical capsules for hunger-regulating hormone modulation	16
Exoskeletons need to react faster than physiological responses to improve standing balance	16
Exploring beyond Earth using space robotics	16
Sunlight-powered self-excited oscillators for sustainable autonomous soft robotics	15
Si chiplet–controlled 3D modular microrobots with smart communication in natural aqueous environments	15
Agile and cooperative aerial manipulation of a cable-suspended load	15
Visual-tactile pretraining and online multitask learning for humanlike manipulation dexterity	14
M3GAN : The real horror is the lack of ethics in robotics	14
“Data will solve robotics and automation: True or false?”: A debate	14
A powered prosthesis supports weight-bearing stand-to-sit transitions	14
Human-robot facial coexpression	13
A framework for robotic excavation and dry stone construction using on-site materials	13
Human-scale navigation of magnetic microrobots in hepatic arteries	13
Modular reconfigurable robots: Toward on-demand multifunctional applications	13
NeuralFeels with neural fields: Visuotactile perception for in-hand manipulation	13
Untethered unidirectionally crawling gels driven by asymmetry in contact forces	13
Adaptive humanlike grasping	12
Medical robots learn to be autonomous	12
What will robots think of us?	12
The novel Player Piano started the familiar discordant tune on the rise of automation	12
Closed-loop optogenetic neuromodulation enables high-fidelity fatigue-resistant muscle control	12
A call for diversity, equity, and inclusion in robotics	11
Haptiknit: Distributed stiffness knitting for wearable haptics	11
Autonomous robotics is driving Perseverance rover’s progress on Mars	11
Intrinsic sense of touch for intuitive physical human-robot interaction	11
The grand challenges of learning medical robot autonomy	11
Octopus-inspired sensorized soft arm for environmental interaction	11
Motion planning around obstacles with convex optimization	11
A highly integrated bionic hand with neural control and feedback for use in daily life	11
Designing microrobots with embodied physical intelligence	11
Assistive robots would regret a robot uprising	11
Bioinspired adaptive pupil reflex based on liquid-metal shape-shifters for machine vision	11
Soft robotic platform for progressive and reversible aortic constriction in a small-animal model	11
Monopedal robot branch-to-branch leaping and landing inspired by squirrel balance control	11
The robots in the Val Kilmer movie Red Planet predated Perseverance and Ingenuity	10
Even teleoperated robots are discriminated against in science fictions	10
Bistable soft jumper capable of fast response and high takeoff velocity	10
Physical control: A new avenue to achieve intelligence in soft robotics	10
Social robot for at-home cognitive monitoring	10
Robotic self-modulation enhances implantable long-acting drug delivery devices	10
Wearable robot provides lumbar and arm support	10
Robot swarms neutralize harmful Byzantine robots using a blockchain-based token economy	10
Swimming in the “Matrix”: VR fish pass the Turing test using a simple control law for collective behavior	10
Versatile multicontact planning and control for legged loco-manipulation	10
Energy efficiency and neural control of continuous versus intermittent swimming in a fishlike robot	10
Avian eye–inspired artificial vision takes a step forward	10
Telesurgery and the importance of context	9
Object-centric task representation and transfer using diffused orientation fields	9
Augmenting rehabilitation robotics with spinal cord neuromodulation: A proof of concept	9
Sticking the landing: Insect-inspired strategies for safely landing flapping-wing aerial microrobots	9