Science Robotics

Article	Citations
Early science fiction got microbots surprisingly right	334
Ted Chiang imagines a computational theory of robots	269
The cold truth about robotics research in the United Kingdom as a Caribbean woman	253
The greatest challenge for prosthetics may be social, not neural, connections	238
Ajna: Generalized deep uncertainty for minimal perception on parsimonious robots	225
Culturally competent social robots target inclusion in Africa	188
Robot-mediated haptic feedback outperforms vision in violin duo coordination	171
Coordinated behavior of autonomous microscopic machines through local electronic pulse coupling	169
Wireless flow-powered miniature robot capable of traversing tubular structures	165
Morphological computation and decentralized learning in a swarm of sterically interacting robots	148
Cross-link collective: Entangled robotic matter with cohesive motion	148
Monte Carlo tree search with spectral expansion for planning with dynamical systems	148
Biohybrid microrobots regulate colonic cytokines and the epithelium barrier in inflammatory bowel disease	147
High-speed control and navigation for quadrupedal robots on complex and discrete terrain	147
From motor control to team play in simulated humanoid football	140
Adaptive active solids	134
Achieving animal endurance in robots through advanced energy storage	132
A self-guided intubation device	131
Reversible kink instability drives ultrafast jumping in nematodes and soft robots	123
Toward self-contained bidirectional bionic limbs with high information throughput	123
Accelerating discovery in natural science laboratories with AI and robotics: Perspectives and challenges	120
Wearable robots for the real world need vision	119
Modular reconfiguration of DNA origami assemblies using tile displacement	115
Remote control of muscle-driven miniature robots with battery-free wireless optoelectronics	113
Surmounting the ceiling effect of motor expertise by novel sensory experience with a hand exoskeleton	111

Crawling, climbing, perching, and flying by FiBa soft robots	111
Autonomous tracking of honey bee behaviors over long-term periods with cooperating robots	108
Embodied aerial physical interaction: Combining body and brain for robust interaction with unstructured environments	108
The neuromechanics of animal locomotion: From biology to robotics and back	106
Advancing physical intelligence for autonomous soft robots	104
Virus-blocking mosquitoes take flight in the fight against dengue	103
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	101
Robotic manipulation of human bipedalism reveals overlapping internal representations of space and time	99
Fly motion vision maximizes signal energy transfer between mechanical input and sensor output	97
Excitation of natural spinal reflex loops in the sensory-motor control of hand prostheses	93
MOGrip: Gripper for multiobject grasping in pick-and-place tasks using translational movements of fingers	93
Neural prosthesis control restores near-normative neuromechanics in standing postural control	91
Representation granularity enables time-efficient autonomous exploration in large, complex worlds	88
Optogenetic neuromuscular actuation of a miniature electronic biohybrid robot	85
Merging motoneuron and postural synergies in prosthetic hand design for natural bionic interfacing	85
The role of low-cost robots in the future of spaceflight	84
Robotically steerable guidewires—Current trends and future directions	80
Magnetically actuated gearbox for the wireless control of millimeter-scale robots	80
AI search, physician removal: Bronchoscopy robot bridges collaboration in foreign body aspiration	80
Understanding humanoid robots could save your life	79
The codevelopment of soft robotics and assistive technology	79
Reconfigurable self-assembled DNA devices	77
Vibrotactile feedback aids prosthesis usability	77
High-tech guardians: Robotics at the heart of the Future Circular Collider	77
Ultralight, strong, and self-reprogrammable mechanical metamaterials	76
Effect of hip abduction assistance on metabolic cost and balance during human walking	75
A retrieval-augmented framework enabling VLM spatial awareness for object-centric robot manipulation	74
Assistive robotics should seamlessly integrate humans and robots	73
A robotic honeycomb for interaction with a honeybee colony	73
OpenExo: An open-source modular exoskeleton to augment human function	72
Tracking and navigation of a microswarm under laser speckle contrast imaging for targeted delivery	71
Autonomous seeking and mapping coral reef biodiversity hotspots with a multimodal AUV	71
Acceptance of humanoid robots: A psychological perspective	70
Increasing the payload capacity of soft robot arms by localized stiffening	70
Unlocking aerobatic potential of quadcopters: Autonomous freestyle flight generation and execution	69
Bioinspired designer DNA NanoGripper for virus sensing and potential inhibition	67
It is hard to be a robot in the wild	67
Head-mounted surgical robots are an enabling technology for subretinal injections	67
Would you risk humanity’s survival on a robot built in two years?	66
Explosion-powered eversible tactile displays	65
Autonomous boat navigation in the real world	65
Teaching robots the art of human social synchrony	64
Clearing away barriers to oral drug delivery	63
Cross-robot behavior adaptation through intention alignment	62
Enhancing social connectedness with companion robots using AI	61
The force has limits: Molecular motors in robotics	60
Magnetic robots make headway in medicine	60
Soft robotic artificial left ventricle simulator capable of reproducing myocardial biomechanics	60
AI-driven aerial robots advance whale research	60
A hyperelastic torque-reversal mechanism for soft joints with compression-responsive transient bistability	60

Tracking hand movements with a smart glove	59
Development of compositionality through interactive learning of language and action of robots	58
Acrobatics at the insect scale: A durable, precise, and agile micro–aerial robot	57
How can educational robots enhance family life? Through careful integration	57
Autonomous surface sampling for the Europa Lander mission concept	57
Knowledge before faith is the motto of a robot pope	56
RoboBallet: Planning for multirobot reaching with graph neural networks and reinforcement learning	56
Scalable robot collective resilience by sharing resources	55
Good old-fashioned engineering can close the 100,000-year “data gap” in robotics	54
A review of learning-based dynamics models for robotic manipulation	52
An ingestible capsule for luminance-based diagnosis of mesenteric ischemia	52
Estimating human joint moments unifies exoskeleton control, reducing user effort	50
Surgical embodied intelligence for generalized task autonomy in laparoscopic robot-assisted surgery	49
Hexagonal electrohydraulic modules for rapidly reconfigurable high-speed robots	48
Self-organizing nervous systems for robot swarms	46
How much initiative should a service robot have?	45
Neuroprosthesis converts brain activity to speech	44
Float like a butterfly, swim like a biohybrid neuromuscular robot	44
Bot self-destruction memes are no laughing matter in science fiction	44
Deep domain adaptation eliminates costly data required for task-agnostic wearable robotic control	42
Solar-powered shape-changing origami microfliers	42
Robotic manipulation of cardiomyocytes to identify gap junction modifiers for arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy	42
Electrofluidic fiber muscles	42
Soft deployable airless wheel for lunar lava tube intact exploration	41
A retrospective of Isaac Asimov at 102 and his Three Laws	41
Reconfigurable aerial robot for subterranean mine inspection	41
Light-emitting, self-healing robotic fibers	40
Robot therapy pets get a starring role in Lightyear and in real life	39
Bilateral Back Extensor Exosuit for multidimensional assistance and prevention of spinal injuries	39
Remote magnetic navigation enables precision telesurgery	38
Microscopic robots with onboard digital control	38
Dexterous helical magnetic robot for improved endovascular access	37
Equalizing access: How robotics and AI can transform surgical care worldwide	37
Cooperative robotic exploration of a planetary skylight surface and lava cave	37
User preference optimization for control of ankle exoskeletons using sample efficient active learning	36
Insect-inspired AI for autonomous robots	35
Visual route following for tiny autonomous robots	35
Biohybrid hand actuated by multiple human muscle tissues	35
The original “I, Robot” featured a murderous robot and the Frankenstein complex	34
Restoration of tactile sensation in bionic hands	34
Preventing pressure ulcers by increasing pressure: An unorthodox alternating-pressure mattress	33
Erratum for the Research Article “Fully neuromorphic vision and control for autonomous drone flight” by F. Paredes-Vallés et al .	33
Wirelessly steerable bioelectronic neuromuscular robots adapting neurocardiac junctions	32
Animal robots in the African wilderness: Lessons learned and outlook for field robotics	32
Attention-based map encoding for learning generalized legged locomotion	32
Understanding brain functional architecture through robotics	32
Biohybrid robot contracts like the human iris	31
Overcoming adversaries in multirobot navigation	31
Flow-driven magnetic microcatheter for superselective arterial embolization	31
Neuromorphic sequence learning with an event camera on routes through vegetation	31
Using machine learning and robotics to discover plastic substitutes	31
Enhancing scientific exploration of the deep sea through shared autonomy in remote manipulation	30
The Omnia bionic leg with a semipowered knee and ankle wins the Cybathlon 2024 leg prosthesis race	30
Preventing antisocial robots: A pathway to artificial empathy	29
Robots and animals teaming up in the wild to tackle ecosystem challenges	29
Variable-stiffness–morphing wheel inspired by the surface tension of a liquid droplet	29
Touching reality: Bridging the user-researcher divide in upper-limb prosthetics	29
Resilient odometry via hierarchical adaptation	28
A portable inflatable soft wearable robot to assist the shoulder during industrial work	28
Human motor augmentation with an extra robotic arm without functional interference	28
Reverse engineering the control law for schooling in zebrafish using virtual reality	28
Modulation of Achilles tendon force with load carriage and exosuit assistance	27
The future lies in a pair of tactile hands	27
Would a robot ever get angry enough to attack a person?	27
Collision-tolerant deformable quadrotor arms	26
Multimodal soft valve enables physical responsiveness for preemptive resilience of soft robots	26
Safe radiation surveillance using uncrewed vehicles	26
Brain-inspired multimodal hybrid neural network for robot place recognition	25
Mechanical neural networks: Architected materials that learn behaviors	25
Dynamic robotic tracking of underwater targets using reinforcement learning	25
Accessing the brain with soft deployable electrocorticography arrays	24
The microDelta: Downscaling robot mechanisms enables ultrafast and high-precision movement	24
RoboCap: Robotic mucus-clearing capsule for enhanced drug delivery in the gastrointestinal tract	23
Is intermittent swimming lazy or clever?	23
Highly agile flat swimming robot	23
Photocatalytic microrobots for treating bacterial infections deep within sinuses	22
Laser-assisted failure recovery for dielectric elastomer actuators in aerial robots	22
Sensor-level computer vision with pixel processor arrays for agile robots	21
Harnessing the oloid shape in magnetically driven robots to enable high-resolution ultrasound imaging	21
Soft robot–mediated autonomous adaptation to fibrotic capsule formation for improved drug delivery	20

Embodying soft robots with octopus-inspired hierarchical suction intelligence	19
Will your next surgeon be a robot? Autonomy and AI in robotic surgery	19
Drone-assisted collection of environmental DNA from tree branches for biodiversity monitoring	19
Understanding the sense of self through robotics	19
Robots do not like Asimov’s three laws	18
Teaching a single-arm robot to fold towels	18
Overcoming the challenges that women in robotics face	18
3D-printed digital pneumatic logic for the control of soft robotic actuators	18
Lightweight haptic ring delivers high force feedback	18
The AI Act Grand Challenge shows how autonomous robots will be regulated	18
Driver’s licenses for autonomous systems	17
SRT-H: A hierarchical framework for autonomous surgery via language-conditioned imitation learning	17
Scale-inspired programmable robotic structures with concurrent shape morphing and stiffness variation	17
Stretchable Arduinos embedded in soft robots	17
A gyroscope-free visual-inertial flight control and wind sensing system for 10-mg robots	17
Haptic perception using optoelectronic robotic flesh for embodied artificially intelligent agents	17
Harnessing emotion and intonation in speech to improve robot acceptance	16
Exploring beyond Earth using space robotics	16
Virtual elasto-plastic robot compliance to active environments	16
Erratum for the Research Article “Safety-assured high-speed navigation for MAVs” by Y. Ren et al .	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
Robot behavior that can adapt to user interaction	15
Beyond alignment: Why robotic foundation models need context-aware safety	15
Exoskeletons need to react faster than physiological responses to improve standing balance	15
Taking control: Steering the future of biohybrid robots	15
Agile and cooperative aerial manipulation of a cable-suspended load	15
Bioinspired, ingestible electroceutical capsules for hunger-regulating hormone modulation	14
M3GAN : The real horror is the lack of ethics in robotics	14
A powered prosthesis supports weight-bearing stand-to-sit transitions	14
Transfer learning in robotics: From promises to practice through the emerging role of foundation models	14
Soft robotic patient-specific hydrodynamic model of aortic stenosis and ventricular remodeling	14
In situ bidirectional human-robot value alignment	14
“Data will solve robotics and automation: True or false?”: A debate	14
Visual-tactile pretraining and online multitask learning for humanlike manipulation dexterity	13
Modular reconfigurable robots: Toward on-demand multifunctional applications	13
Untethered unidirectionally crawling gels driven by asymmetry in contact forces	13
Human-robot facial coexpression	13
Embodied or virtually represented: Navigating the embodiment debate in human-robot interaction	13
A framework for robotic excavation and dry stone construction using on-site materials	13
Medical robots learn to be autonomous	12
NeuralFeels with neural fields: Visuotactile perception for in-hand manipulation	12
A call for diversity, equity, and inclusion in robotics	12
Adaptive humanlike grasping	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
What will robots think of us?	12
Human-scale navigation of magnetic microrobots in hepatic arteries	12
Octopus-inspired sensorized soft arm for environmental interaction	12
Haptiknit: Distributed stiffness knitting for wearable haptics	12
Intrinsic sense of touch for intuitive physical human-robot interaction	11
Monopedal robot branch-to-branch leaping and landing inspired by squirrel balance control	11
Energy efficiency and neural control of continuous versus intermittent swimming in a fishlike robot	11
Avian eye–inspired artificial vision takes a step forward	11
Assistive robots would regret a robot uprising	11
Designing microrobots with embodied physical intelligence	11
Social robot for at-home cognitive monitoring	11
The grand challenges of learning medical robot autonomy	11
Bioinspired adaptive pupil reflex based on liquid-metal shape-shifters for machine vision	10
Soft robotic platform for progressive and reversible aortic constriction in a small-animal model	10
Robot swarms neutralize harmful Byzantine robots using a blockchain-based token economy	10
Physical control: A new avenue to achieve intelligence in soft robotics	10
A highly integrated bionic hand with neural control and feedback for use in daily life	10
Autonomous robotics is driving Perseverance rover’s progress on Mars	10
Motion planning around obstacles with convex optimization	10
Wearable robot provides lumbar and arm support	9
Swimming in the “Matrix”: VR fish pass the Turing test using a simple control law for collective behavior	9
Versatile multicontact planning and control for legged loco-manipulation	9
The robots in the Val Kilmer movie Red Planet predated Perseverance and Ingenuity	9
Even teleoperated robots are discriminated against in science fictions	9
Restoration of grasping in an upper limb amputee using the myokinetic prosthesis with implanted magnets	9
Telesurgery and the importance of context	9
Bistable soft jumper capable of fast response and high takeoff velocity	9
Robotic self-modulation enhances implantable long-acting drug delivery devices	9
Object-centric task representation and transfer using diffused orientation fields	9
Augmenting rehabilitation robotics with spinal cord neuromodulation: A proof of concept	9