Science Robotics

Article	Citations
High-speed control and navigation for quadrupedal robots on complex and discrete terrain	745
The cold truth about robotics research in the United Kingdom as a Caribbean woman	468
The greatest challenge for prosthetics may be social, not neural, connections	346
Ted Chiang imagines a computational theory of robots	333
From motor control to team play in simulated humanoid football	304
Robotic assistive technologies get more personal	270
Early science fiction got microbots surprisingly right	250
Coherent, super-resolved radar beamforming using self-supervised learning	222
Morphological computation and decentralized learning in a swarm of sterically interacting robots	213
Ajna: Generalized deep uncertainty for minimal perception on parsimonious robots	205
Coordinated behavior of autonomous microscopic machines through local electronic pulse coupling	202
Monte Carlo tree search with spectral expansion for planning with dynamical systems	164
The role of user preference in the customized control of robotic exoskeletons	163
By the time we build robots that care for us, will we be able to care for them?	157
Biohybrid microrobots regulate colonic cytokines and the epithelium barrier in inflammatory bowel disease	150
Culturally competent social robots target inclusion in Africa	145
Shape morphing mechanical metamaterials through reversible plasticity	142
Wireless flow-powered miniature robot capable of traversing tubular structures	141
Autonomous tracking of honey bee behaviors over long-term periods with cooperating robots	136
Wearable robots for the real world need vision	131
Adaptive active solids	128
Reversible kink instability drives ultrafast jumping in nematodes and soft robots	128
Advancing physical intelligence for autonomous soft robots	128
Embodied aerial physical interaction: Combining body and brain for robust interaction with unstructured environments	125
Crawling, climbing, perching, and flying by FiBa soft robots	114

Achieving animal endurance in robots through advanced energy storage	113
Toward self-contained bidirectional bionic limbs with high information throughput	110
Surmounting the ceiling effect of motor expertise by novel sensory experience with a hand exoskeleton	109
Neglected physical human-robot interaction may explain variable outcomes in gait neurorehabilitation research	109
Modular reconfiguration of DNA origami assemblies using tile displacement	108
Soft robotic steerable microcatheter for the endovascular treatment of cerebral disorders	105
The neuromechanics of animal locomotion: From biology to robotics and back	104
Remote control of muscle-driven miniature robots with battery-free wireless optoelectronics	102
Excitation of natural spinal reflex loops in the sensory-motor control of hand prostheses	98
Merging motoneuron and postural synergies in prosthetic hand design for natural bionic interfacing	98
MOGrip: Gripper for multiobject grasping in pick-and-place tasks using translational movements of fingers	96
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 .	93
Virus-blocking mosquitoes take flight in the fight against dengue	93
A bioinspired revolving-wing drone with passive attitude stability and efficient hovering flight	90
Neural prosthesis control restores near-normative neuromechanics in standing postural control	86
Magnetically actuated gearbox for the wireless control of millimeter-scale robots	85
The role of low-cost robots in the future of spaceflight	85
AI search, physician removal: Bronchoscopy robot bridges collaboration in foreign body aspiration	82
A pipeline inspection robot for navigating tubular environments in the sub-centimeter scale	81
A sound approach to improving exoskeletons and exosuits	80
Light-driven carbon nitride microswimmers with propulsion in biological and ionic media and responsive on-demand drug delivery	80
Representation granularity enables time-efficient autonomous exploration in large, complex worlds	80
Reconfigurable self-assembled DNA devices	77
Unlocking aerobatic potential of quadcopters: Autonomous freestyle flight generation and execution	76
Understanding humanoid robots could save your life	75
OpenExo: An open-source modular exoskeleton to augment human function	72
Effect of hip abduction assistance on metabolic cost and balance during human walking	71
A robotic honeycomb for interaction with a honeybee colony	70
Bioinspired designer DNA NanoGripper for virus sensing and potential inhibition	68
Assistive robotics should seamlessly integrate humans and robots	66
High-tech guardians: Robotics at the heart of the Future Circular Collider	66
Head-mounted surgical robots are an enabling technology for subretinal injections	64
Abyssal Benthic Rover, an autonomous vehicle for long-term monitoring of deep-ocean processes	62
Learning garment manipulation policies toward robot-assisted dressing	62
Increasing the payload capacity of soft robot arms by localized stiffening	61
A decade retrospective of medical robotics research from 2010 to 2020	59
Tracking and navigation of a microswarm under laser speckle contrast imaging for targeted delivery	59
Ultralight, strong, and self-reprogrammable mechanical metamaterials	57
Autonomous boat navigation in the real world	56
Soft robotic artificial left ventricle simulator capable of reproducing myocardial biomechanics	56
Learning high-speed flight in the wild	55
Would you risk humanity’s survival on a robot built in two years?	55
Teaching robots the art of human social synchrony	54
Tunable stiffness enables fast and efficient swimming in fish-like robots	54
Clearing away barriers to oral drug delivery	53
A hyperelastic torque-reversal mechanism for soft joints with compression-responsive transient bistability	53
A meta-analysis on the effectiveness of anthropomorphism in human-robot interaction	52
Enhancing social connectedness with companion robots using AI	52
AI-driven aerial robots advance whale research	50
Robotic end-to-end fusion of microtubules powered by kinesin	50

It is hard to be a robot in the wild	50
Light-powered soft steam engines for self-adaptive oscillation and biomimetic swimming	50
Autonomous surface sampling for the Europa Lander mission concept	49
The force has limits: Molecular motors in robotics	48
Magnetic robots make headway in medicine	47
Acrobatics at the insect scale: A durable, precise, and agile micro–aerial robot	46
Tracking hand movements with a smart glove	46
Five years of Science Robotics	45
Visual-inertial hand motion tracking with robustness against occlusion, interference, and contact	44
Development of compositionality through interactive learning of language and action of robots	44
Surgical embodied intelligence for generalized task autonomy in laparoscopic robot-assisted surgery	43
Bot self-destruction memes are no laughing matter in science fiction	42
Estimating human joint moments unifies exoskeleton control, reducing user effort	42
Hexagonal electrohydraulic modules for rapidly reconfigurable high-speed robots	42
Knowledge before faith is the motto of a robot pope	42
How much initiative should a service robot have?	41
Self-organizing nervous systems for robot swarms	41
Neuroprosthesis converts brain activity to speech	41
Float like a butterfly, swim like a biohybrid neuromuscular robot	40
Robotic manipulation of cardiomyocytes to identify gap junction modifiers for arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy	39
Equalizing access: How robotics and AI can transform surgical care worldwide	39
Solar-powered shape-changing origami microfliers	39
Bilateral Back Extensor Exosuit for multidimensional assistance and prevention of spinal injuries	38
Insect-inspired AI for autonomous robots	38
User preference optimization for control of ankle exoskeletons using sample efficient active learning	38
A retrospective of Isaac Asimov at 102 and his Three Laws	38
Visual route following for tiny autonomous robots	37
Light-emitting, self-healing robotic fibers	36
Robot therapy pets get a starring role in Lightyear and in real life	35
Biohybrid hand actuated by multiple human muscle tissues	35
Remote magnetic navigation enables precision telesurgery	35
Microscopic robots with onboard digital control	34
Emergence of robust self-organized undulatory swimming based on local hydrodynamic force sensing	34
Dexterous helical magnetic robot for improved endovascular access	34
Erratum for the Research Article “Fully neuromorphic vision and control for autonomous drone flight” by F. Paredes-Vallés et al .	33
Restoration of tactile sensation in bionic hands	33
The original “I, Robot” featured a murderous robot and the Frankenstein complex	33
Preventing pressure ulcers by increasing pressure: An unorthodox alternating-pressure mattress	33
Animal robots in the African wilderness: Lessons learned and outlook for field robotics	32
Neuromorphic sequence learning with an event camera on routes through vegetation	32
The relevance of signal timing in human-robot collaborative manipulation	32
Understanding brain functional architecture through robotics	32
Wirelessly steerable bioelectronic neuromuscular robots adapting neurocardiac junctions	31
Overcoming adversaries in multirobot navigation	31
A portable inflatable soft wearable robot to assist the shoulder during industrial work	30
Co-bots get the good jobs while workers get a human-robot interaction nightmare	30
Biohybrid robot contracts like the human iris	30
BirdBot achieves energy-efficient gait with minimal control using avian-inspired leg clutching	30
Running birds reveal secrets for legged robot design	29
Using machine learning and robotics to discover plastic substitutes	29
Preventing antisocial robots: A pathway to artificial empathy	28
Enhancing scientific exploration of the deep sea through shared autonomy in remote manipulation	28
Reverse engineering the control law for schooling in zebrafish using virtual reality	27
Robots and animals teaming up in the wild to tackle ecosystem challenges	27
Touching reality: Bridging the user-researcher divide in upper-limb prosthetics	27
Variable-stiffness–morphing wheel inspired by the surface tension of a liquid droplet	27
Metabolically efficient walking assistance using optimized timed forces at the waist	26
Multimodal sensing and intuitive steering assistance improve navigation and mobility for people with impaired vision	26
Human motor augmentation with an extra robotic arm without functional interference	26
The future lies in a pair of tactile hands	24
Brain-inspired multimodal hybrid neural network for robot place recognition	24
Would a robot ever get angry enough to attack a person?	24
Safe radiation surveillance using uncrewed vehicles	23
Modulation of Achilles tendon force with load carriage and exosuit assistance	23
Dynamic robotic tracking of underwater targets using reinforcement learning	23
Exploring planet geology through force-feedback telemanipulation from orbit	23
Multimodal soft valve enables physical responsiveness for preemptive resilience of soft robots	23
Accessing the brain with soft deployable electrocorticography arrays	22
Will your next surgeon be a robot? Autonomy and AI in robotic surgery	22
Laser-assisted failure recovery for dielectric elastomer actuators in aerial robots	22
Mechanical neural networks: Architected materials that learn behaviors	22
Embodying soft robots with octopus-inspired hierarchical suction intelligence	21
Harnessing the oloid shape in magnetically driven robots to enable high-resolution ultrasound imaging	21
Danger! This robot may be trying to manipulate you	21
Soft robot–mediated autonomous adaptation to fibrotic capsule formation for improved drug delivery	21
Photocatalytic microrobots for treating bacterial infections deep within sinuses	21
Highly agile flat swimming robot	21
3D-printed digital pneumatic logic for the control of soft robotic actuators	20
Understanding the sense of self through robotics	20
RoboCap: Robotic mucus-clearing capsule for enhanced drug delivery in the gastrointestinal tract	20

Drone-assisted collection of environmental DNA from tree branches for biodiversity monitoring	18
Robot Operating System 2: Design, architecture, and uses in the wild	18
SRT-H: A hierarchical framework for autonomous surgery via language-conditioned imitation learning	17
Sensor-level computer vision with pixel processor arrays for agile robots	17
Overcoming the challenges that women in robotics face	17
Tactile sensors need a greater sense of purpose	16
Preclinical upper limb neurorobotic platform to assess, rehabilitate, and develop therapies	16
Virtual elasto-plastic robot compliance to active environments	16
Electronics-free soft robot has a nice ring to it	15
Haptic perception using optoelectronic robotic flesh for embodied artificially intelligent agents	15
The AI Act Grand Challenge shows how autonomous robots will be regulated	15
Liquid-amplified zipping actuators for micro-air vehicles with transmission-free flapping	14
A gyroscope-free visual-inertial flight control and wind sensing system for 10-mg robots	14
Cooperative cargo transportation by a swarm of molecular machines	14
Scale-inspired programmable robotic structures with concurrent shape morphing and stiffness variation	14
Exoskeletons need to react faster than physiological responses to improve standing balance	14
Teaching a single-arm robot to fold towels	14
Stretchable Arduinos embedded in soft robots	14
Exploring beyond Earth using space robotics	13
Erratum for the Research Article “Safety-assured high-speed navigation for MAVs” by Y. Ren et al .	13
In situ bidirectional human-robot value alignment	13
A professional slackliner robot	13
Harnessing emotion and intonation in speech to improve robot acceptance	13
Robot behavior that can adapt to user interaction	13
Taking control: Steering the future of biohybrid robots	13
Bioinspired, ingestible electroceutical capsules for hunger-regulating hormone modulation	12
Human-scale navigation of magnetic microrobots in hepatic arteries	12
Sunlight-powered self-excited oscillators for sustainable autonomous soft robotics	12
Soft robotic patient-specific hydrodynamic model of aortic stenosis and ventricular remodeling	12
Individualization of exosuit assistance based on measured muscle dynamics during versatile walking	11
A powered prosthesis supports weight-bearing stand-to-sit transitions	11
Dynamic tactility by position-encoded spike spectrum	10
Human-robot facial coexpression	10
A framework for robotic excavation and dry stone construction using on-site materials	10
NeuralFeels with neural fields: Visuotactile perception for in-hand manipulation	10
Untethered unidirectionally crawling gels driven by asymmetry in contact forces	10
Surface haptic rendering of virtual shapes through change in surface temperature	10
M3GAN : The real horror is the lack of ethics in robotics	10
Octopus-inspired sensorized soft arm for environmental interaction	9
What will robots think of us?	9
The novel Player Piano started the familiar discordant tune on the rise of automation	9
Closed-loop optogenetic neuromodulation enables high-fidelity fatigue-resistant muscle control	9
The grand challenges of learning medical robot autonomy	9
Effective and natural human-robot interaction requires multidisciplinary research	9
Robots at the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics	9
Medical robots learn to be autonomous	9
Haptiknit: Distributed stiffness knitting for wearable haptics	9
Magnetomicrometry	9
A call for diversity, equity, and inclusion in robotics	8
Soft robotic platform for progressive and reversible aortic constriction in a small-animal model	8
Social robot for at-home cognitive monitoring	8
A highly integrated bionic hand with neural control and feedback for use in daily life	8
Avian eye–inspired artificial vision takes a step forward	8
Physical control: A new avenue to achieve intelligence in soft robotics	8
Autonomous robotics is driving Perseverance rover’s progress on Mars	8
Assistive robots would regret a robot uprising	7
Robot swarms neutralize harmful Byzantine robots using a blockchain-based token economy	7
Autonomous robotic laparoscopic surgery for intestinal anastomosis	7
Restoration of grasping in an upper limb amputee using the myokinetic prosthesis with implanted magnets	7
Motion planning around obstacles with convex optimization	7
Bistable soft jumper capable of fast response and high takeoff velocity	7
Augmenting rehabilitation robotics with spinal cord neuromodulation: A proof of concept	7
Intrinsic sense of touch for intuitive physical human-robot interaction	7
Monopedal robot branch-to-branch leaping and landing inspired by squirrel balance control	7
Harnessing the circular economy to develop sustainable soft robots	7
Field deployment of Wolbachia -infected Aedes aegypti using uncrewed aerial vehicle	7
Wearable robot provides lumbar and arm support	6
Mechanical intelligence simplifies control in terrestrial limbless locomotion	6
Even teleoperated robots are discriminated against in science fictions	6
Swimming in the “Matrix”: VR fish pass the Turing test using a simple control law for collective behavior	6
The robots in the Val Kilmer movie Red Planet predated Perseverance and Ingenuity	6
A compact DEA-based soft peristaltic pump for power and control of fluidic robots	6
An ultrawide field-of-view pinhole compound eye using hemispherical nanowire array for robot vision	6
Robotic self-modulation enhances implantable long-acting drug delivery devices	6
Optimality principles in spacecraft neural guidance and control	6
Sticking the landing: Insect-inspired strategies for safely landing flapping-wing aerial microrobots	6
Versatile multicontact planning and control for legged loco-manipulation	6
Telesurgery and the importance of context	6