Science Robotics

Article	Citations
Ajna: Generalized deep uncertainty for minimal perception on parsimonious robots	641
Early science fiction got microbots surprisingly right	430
Coherent, super-resolved radar beamforming using self-supervised learning	312
Coordinated behavior of autonomous microscopic machines through local electronic pulse coupling	288
The cold truth about robotics research in the United Kingdom as a Caribbean woman	283
Monte Carlo tree search with spectral expansion for planning with dynamical systems	231
The role of user preference in the customized control of robotic exoskeletons	221
Robotic assistive technologies get more personal	198
By the time we build robots that care for us, will we be able to care for them?	188
Ted Chiang imagines a computational theory of robots	186
Culturally competent social robots target inclusion in Africa	176
From motor control to team play in simulated humanoid football	174
From individual robots to robot societies	146
Morphological computation and decentralized learning in a swarm of sterically interacting robots	146
Biohybrid microrobots regulate colonic cytokines and the epithelium barrier in inflammatory bowel disease	144
Wireless flow-powered miniature robot capable of traversing tubular structures	144
Toward a living soft microrobot through optogenetic locomotion control of Caenorhabditis elegans	133
Shape morphing mechanical metamaterials through reversible plasticity	133
Toward self-contained bidirectional bionic limbs with high information throughput	132
Complex manipulation with a simple robotic hand through contact breaking and caging	128
Surmounting the ceiling effect of motor expertise by novel sensory experience with a hand exoskeleton	124
Autonomous tracking of honey bee behaviors over long-term periods with cooperating robots	117
Crawling, climbing, perching, and flying by FiBa soft robots	116
Reversible kink instability drives ultrafast jumping in nematodes and soft robots	112
Neglected physical human-robot interaction may explain variable outcomes in gait neurorehabilitation research	112

Wearable robots for the real world need vision	111
The neuromechanics of animal locomotion: From biology to robotics and back	111
Modular reconfiguration of DNA origami assemblies using tile displacement	111
Soft robotic steerable microcatheter for the endovascular treatment of cerebral disorders	109
Adaptive active solids	105
Achieving animal endurance in robots through advanced energy storage	104
The role of low-cost robots in the future of spaceflight	101
Remote control of muscle-driven miniature robots with battery-free wireless optoelectronics	101
Magnetically actuated gearbox for the wireless control of millimeter-scale robots	99
Representation granularity enables time-efficient autonomous exploration in large, complex worlds	98
MOGrip: Gripper for multiobject grasping in pick-and-place tasks using translational movements of fingers	97
Virus-blocking mosquitoes take flight in the fight against dengue	95
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 .	94
Excitation of natural spinal reflex loops in the sensory-motor control of hand prostheses	91
Light-driven carbon nitride microswimmers with propulsion in biological and ionic media and responsive on-demand drug delivery	90
Neural prosthesis control restores near-normative neuromechanics in standing postural control	89
A pipeline inspection robot for navigating tubular environments in the sub-centimeter scale	85
A bioinspired revolving-wing drone with passive attitude stability and efficient hovering flight	85
Merging motoneuron and postural synergies in prosthetic hand design for natural bionic interfacing	84
Reconfigurable self-assembled DNA devices	82
Seeing through the forest and the trees with drones	80
Stealthy tracking of deep ocean organisms with Mesobot	78
A sound approach to improving exoskeletons and exosuits	76
High-tech guardians: Robotics at the heart of the Future Circular Collider	75
Effect of hip abduction assistance on metabolic cost and balance during human walking	74
Learning garment manipulation policies toward robot-assisted dressing	71
Assistive robotics should seamlessly integrate humans and robots	70
Abyssal Benthic Rover, an autonomous vehicle for long-term monitoring of deep-ocean processes	67
Unlocking aerobatic potential of quadcopters: Autonomous freestyle flight generation and execution	67
Head-mounted surgical robots are an enabling technology for subretinal injections	66
Understanding humanoid robots could save your life	65
Ultralight, strong, and self-reprogrammable mechanical metamaterials	64
Increasing the payload capacity of soft robot arms by localized stiffening	63
Tracking and navigation of a microswarm under laser speckle contrast imaging for targeted delivery	61
A decade retrospective of medical robotics research from 2010 to 2020	61
A robotic honeycomb for interaction with a honeybee colony	61
Bioinspired designer DNA NanoGripper for virus sensing and potential inhibition	61
A hyperelastic torque-reversal mechanism for soft joints with compression-responsive transient bistability	60
Autonomous boat navigation in the real world	59
Would you risk humanity’s survival on a robot built in two years?	59
Teaching robots the art of human social synchrony	59
Clearing away barriers to oral drug delivery	58
Soft robotic artificial left ventricle simulator capable of reproducing myocardial biomechanics	55
It is hard to be a robot in the wild	54
Tunable stiffness enables fast and efficient swimming in fish-like robots	53
Learning high-speed flight in the wild	53
Light-powered soft steam engines for self-adaptive oscillation and biomimetic swimming	52
Enhancing social connectedness with companion robots using AI	51
Tracking hand movements with a smart glove	49
A meta-analysis on the effectiveness of anthropomorphism in human-robot interaction	49

Five years of Science Robotics	47
Magnetic robots make headway in medicine	47
Robotic end-to-end fusion of microtubules powered by kinesin	47
The force has limits: Molecular motors in robotics	47
AI-driven aerial robots advance whale research	46
Learning where to trust unreliable models in an unstructured world for deformable object manipulation	46
Development of compositionality through interactive learning of language and action of robots	46
Acrobatics at the insect scale: A durable, precise, and agile micro–aerial robot	46
Robotic manipulation of cardiomyocytes to identify gap junction modifiers for arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy	45
Visual-inertial hand motion tracking with robustness against occlusion, interference, and contact	45
Bot self-destruction memes are no laughing matter in science fiction	45
Float like a butterfly, swim like a biohybrid neuromuscular robot	44
Self-organizing nervous systems for robot swarms	43
How much initiative should a service robot have?	42
Solar-powered shape-changing origami microfliers	42
Hexagonal electrohydraulic modules for rapidly reconfigurable high-speed robots	41
A retrospective of Isaac Asimov at 102 and his Three Laws	41
Estimating human joint moments unifies exoskeleton control, reducing user effort	41
Robot therapy pets get a starring role in Lightyear and in real life	41
Light-emitting, self-healing robotic fibers	40
Visual route following for tiny autonomous robots	40
Biohybrid hand actuated by multiple human muscle tissues	39
Remote magnetic navigation enables precision telesurgery	39
User preference optimization for control of ankle exoskeletons using sample efficient active learning	39
Time-optimal planning for quadrotor waypoint flight	38
Microscopic robots with onboard digital control	38
Bilateral Back Extensor Exosuit for multidimensional assistance and prevention of spinal injuries	38
Insect-inspired AI for autonomous robots	38
The original “I, Robot” featured a murderous robot and the Frankenstein complex	37
Dexterous helical magnetic robot for improved endovascular access	37
Restoration of tactile sensation in bionic hands	35
Erratum for the Research Article “Fully neuromorphic vision and control for autonomous drone flight” by F. Paredes-Vallés et al .	35
Neuromorphic sequence learning with an event camera on routes through vegetation	35
Animal robots in the African wilderness: Lessons learned and outlook for field robotics	35
Robots have grasped and manipulated the imagination since 1839	35
Emergence of robust self-organized undulatory swimming based on local hydrodynamic force sensing	33
Wirelessly steerable bioelectronic neuromuscular robots adapting neurocardiac junctions	32
Co-bots get the good jobs while workers get a human-robot interaction nightmare	32
Understanding brain functional architecture through robotics	32
The relevance of signal timing in human-robot collaborative manipulation	32
Overcoming adversaries in multirobot navigation	31
Running birds reveal secrets for legged robot design	30
Using machine learning and robotics to discover plastic substitutes	30
A portable inflatable soft wearable robot to assist the shoulder during industrial work	30
Variable-stiffness–morphing wheel inspired by the surface tension of a liquid droplet	30
Biohybrid robot contracts like the human iris	29
Robots and animals teaming up in the wild to tackle ecosystem challenges	29
BirdBot achieves energy-efficient gait with minimal control using avian-inspired leg clutching	28
Reverse engineering the control law for schooling in zebrafish using virtual reality	28
Enhancing scientific exploration of the deep sea through shared autonomy in remote manipulation	28
Preventing antisocial robots: A pathway to artificial empathy	28
Touching reality: Bridging the user-researcher divide in upper-limb prosthetics	28
Safe radiation surveillance using uncrewed vehicles	28
Would a robot ever get angry enough to attack a person?	27
Metabolically efficient walking assistance using optimized timed forces at the waist	27
Human motor augmentation with an extra robotic arm without functional interference	26
Exploring planet geology through force-feedback telemanipulation from orbit	26
Dynamic robotic tracking of underwater targets using reinforcement learning	26
Modulation of Achilles tendon force with load carriage and exosuit assistance	26
Robotic hand augmentation drives changes in neural body representation	25
Brain-inspired multimodal hybrid neural network for robot place recognition	25
The future lies in a pair of tactile hands	25
Multimodal soft valve enables physical responsiveness for preemptive resilience of soft robots	25
Multimodal sensing and intuitive steering assistance improve navigation and mobility for people with impaired vision	24
Accessing the brain with soft deployable electrocorticography arrays	24
Mechanical neural networks: Architected materials that learn behaviors	24
Harnessing the oloid shape in magnetically driven robots to enable high-resolution ultrasound imaging	24
Understanding the sense of self through robotics	23
3D-printed digital pneumatic logic for the control of soft robotic actuators	22
Danger! This robot may be trying to manipulate you	22
Laser-assisted failure recovery for dielectric elastomer actuators in aerial robots	22
Drone-assisted collection of environmental DNA from tree branches for biodiversity monitoring	22
Highly agile flat swimming robot	22
RoboCap: Robotic mucus-clearing capsule for enhanced drug delivery in the gastrointestinal tract	21
Soft robot–mediated autonomous adaptation to fibrotic capsule formation for improved drug delivery	21
Preclinical upper limb neurorobotic platform to assess, rehabilitate, and develop therapies	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
Virtual elasto-plastic robot compliance to active environments	19
Overcoming the challenges that women in robotics face	19

Electronics-free soft robot has a nice ring to it	19
Teaching a single-arm robot to fold towels	19
Tactile sensors need a greater sense of purpose	18
Co-designing hardware and control for robot hands	18
Scale-inspired programmable robotic structures with concurrent shape morphing and stiffness variation	17
The AI Act Grand Challenge shows how autonomous robots will be regulated	17
Cooperative cargo transportation by a swarm of molecular machines	16
A gyroscope-free visual-inertial flight control and wind sensing system for 10-mg robots	16
Liquid-amplified zipping actuators for micro-air vehicles with transmission-free flapping	16
Haptic perception using optoelectronic robotic flesh for embodied artificially intelligent agents	16
Harnessing emotion and intonation in speech to improve robot acceptance	15
Stretchable Arduinos embedded in soft robots	15
Robot behavior that can adapt to user interaction	14
Erratum for the Research Article “Safety-assured high-speed navigation for MAVs” by Y. Ren et al .	14
Manipulation for self-Identification, and self-Identification for better manipulation	14
A professional slackliner robot	14
The unstable queen: Uncertainty, mechanics, and tactile feedback	14
Exploring beyond Earth using space robotics	13
Soft robotic patient-specific hydrodynamic model of aortic stenosis and ventricular remodeling	13
In situ bidirectional human-robot value alignment	13
Taking control: Steering the future of biohybrid robots	13
Exoskeletons need to react faster than physiological responses to improve standing balance	13
Bioinspired, ingestible electroceutical capsules for hunger-regulating hormone modulation	12
M3GAN : The real horror is the lack of ethics in robotics	12
Sunlight-powered self-excited oscillators for sustainable autonomous soft robotics	12
Dynamic tactility by position-encoded spike spectrum	12
Human-robot facial coexpression	12
Effective and natural human-robot interaction requires multidisciplinary research	12
A powered prosthesis supports weight-bearing stand-to-sit transitions	12
Surface haptic rendering of virtual shapes through change in surface temperature	11
Human-scale navigation of magnetic microrobots in hepatic arteries	11
Robot mothers in science fiction	11
Untethered unidirectionally crawling gels driven by asymmetry in contact forces	11
Individualization of exosuit assistance based on measured muscle dynamics during versatile walking	11
A framework for robotic excavation and dry stone construction using on-site materials	11
NeuralFeels with neural fields: Visuotactile perception for in-hand manipulation	11
The novel Player Piano started the familiar discordant tune on the rise of automation	10
Magnetomicrometry	10
What will robots think of us?	10
Octopus-inspired sensorized soft arm for environmental interaction	10
Robots at the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics	10
An autonomous excavator system for material loading tasks	10
Closed-loop optogenetic neuromodulation enables high-fidelity fatigue-resistant muscle control	10
Avian eye–inspired artificial vision takes a step forward	9
Soft robotic platform for progressive and reversible aortic constriction in a small-animal model	9
Haptiknit: Distributed stiffness knitting for wearable haptics	9
Assistive robots would regret a robot uprising	9
A call for diversity, equity, and inclusion in robotics	9
Harnessing the circular economy to develop sustainable soft robots	9
Intrinsic sense of touch for intuitive physical human-robot interaction	9
Social robot for at-home cognitive monitoring	8
Robot swarms neutralize harmful Byzantine robots using a blockchain-based token economy	8
Monopedal robot branch-to-branch leaping and landing inspired by squirrel balance control	8
Bistable soft jumper capable of fast response and high takeoff velocity	7
Augmenting rehabilitation robotics with spinal cord neuromodulation: A proof of concept	7
Even teleoperated robots are discriminated against in science fictions	7
Wearable robot provides lumbar and arm support	7
Motion planning around obstacles with convex optimization	7
Autonomous robotics is driving Perseverance rover’s progress on Mars	7
Restoration of grasping in an upper limb amputee using the myokinetic prosthesis with implanted magnets	7
Autonomous robotic laparoscopic surgery for intestinal anastomosis	7
A highly integrated bionic hand with neural control and feedback for use in daily life	7
Telesurgery and the importance of context	7
Robotic self-modulation enhances implantable long-acting drug delivery devices	7
A compact DEA-based soft peristaltic pump for power and control of fluidic robots	6
Sticking the landing: Insect-inspired strategies for safely landing flapping-wing aerial microrobots	6
An ultrawide field-of-view pinhole compound eye using hemispherical nanowire array for robot vision	6
Telerobotic neurovascular interventions with magnetic manipulation	6
Field deployment of Wolbachia -infected Aedes aegypti using uncrewed aerial vehicle	6
A 2-year locomotive exploration and scientific investigation of the lunar farside by the Yutu-2 rover	6
Mechanical intelligence simplifies control in terrestrial limbless locomotion	6
Optimality principles in spacecraft neural guidance and control	6
Versatile multicontact planning and control for legged loco-manipulation	6