Science Robotics

Article	Citations
Ajna: Generalized deep uncertainty for minimal perception on parsimonious robots	794
By the time we build robots that care for us, will we be able to care for them?	484
Early science fiction got microbots surprisingly right	361
Ted Chiang imagines a computational theory of robots	348
The cold truth about robotics research in the United Kingdom as a Caribbean woman	278
The greatest challenge for prosthetics may be social, not neural, connections	257
High-speed control and navigation for quadrupedal robots on complex and discrete terrain	230
Coordinated behavior of autonomous microscopic machines through local electronic pulse coupling	227
Robotic assistive technologies get more personal	213
Culturally competent social robots target inclusion in Africa	211
Coherent, super-resolved radar beamforming using self-supervised learning	171
Monte Carlo tree search with spectral expansion for planning with dynamical systems	170
From motor control to team play in simulated humanoid football	163
Wireless flow-powered miniature robot capable of traversing tubular structures	156
Morphological computation and decentralized learning in a swarm of sterically interacting robots	154
Biohybrid microrobots regulate colonic cytokines and the epithelium barrier in inflammatory bowel disease	147
Reversible kink instability drives ultrafast jumping in nematodes and soft robots	139
The role of user preference in the customized control of robotic exoskeletons	139
Shape morphing mechanical metamaterials through reversible plasticity	139
The neuromechanics of animal locomotion: From biology to robotics and back	134
Autonomous tracking of honey bee behaviors over long-term periods with cooperating robots	132
Wearable robots for the real world need vision	129
Adaptive active solids	120
Advancing physical intelligence for autonomous soft robots	116
Embodied aerial physical interaction: Combining body and brain for robust interaction with unstructured environments	113

Toward self-contained bidirectional bionic limbs with high information throughput	110
Neglected physical human-robot interaction may explain variable outcomes in gait neurorehabilitation research	108
Achieving animal endurance in robots through advanced energy storage	107
Crawling, climbing, perching, and flying by FiBa soft robots	105
Surmounting the ceiling effect of motor expertise by novel sensory experience with a hand exoskeleton	100
Modular reconfiguration of DNA origami assemblies using tile displacement	99
Remote control of muscle-driven miniature robots with battery-free wireless optoelectronics	99
Merging motoneuron and postural synergies in prosthetic hand design for natural bionic interfacing	98
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 .	95
Virus-blocking mosquitoes take flight in the fight against dengue	95
The role of low-cost robots in the future of spaceflight	94
Robotically steerable guidewires—Current trends and future directions	90
Excitation of natural spinal reflex loops in the sensory-motor control of hand prostheses	86
Neural prosthesis control restores near-normative neuromechanics in standing postural control	86
Magnetically actuated gearbox for the wireless control of millimeter-scale robots	84
A bioinspired revolving-wing drone with passive attitude stability and efficient hovering flight	84
AI search, physician removal: Bronchoscopy robot bridges collaboration in foreign body aspiration	82
Representation granularity enables time-efficient autonomous exploration in large, complex worlds	81
MOGrip: Gripper for multiobject grasping in pick-and-place tasks using translational movements of fingers	79
Light-driven carbon nitride microswimmers with propulsion in biological and ionic media and responsive on-demand drug delivery	78
A pipeline inspection robot for navigating tubular environments in the sub-centimeter scale	77
Effect of hip abduction assistance on metabolic cost and balance during human walking	74
Reconfigurable self-assembled DNA devices	73
Head-mounted surgical robots are an enabling technology for subretinal injections	73
High-tech guardians: Robotics at the heart of the Future Circular Collider	69
Assistive robotics should seamlessly integrate humans and robots	69
Understanding humanoid robots could save your life	68
OpenExo: An open-source modular exoskeleton to augment human function	67
A sound approach to improving exoskeletons and exosuits	65
Bioinspired designer DNA NanoGripper for virus sensing and potential inhibition	64
Learning garment manipulation policies toward robot-assisted dressing	64
Tracking and navigation of a microswarm under laser speckle contrast imaging for targeted delivery	63
Unlocking aerobatic potential of quadcopters: Autonomous freestyle flight generation and execution	62
A robotic honeycomb for interaction with a honeybee colony	61
A decade retrospective of medical robotics research from 2010 to 2020	60
Ultralight, strong, and self-reprogrammable mechanical metamaterials	58
Increasing the payload capacity of soft robot arms by localized stiffening	58
Abyssal Benthic Rover, an autonomous vehicle for long-term monitoring of deep-ocean processes	58
Autonomous boat navigation in the real world	56
It is hard to be a robot in the wild	55
Clearing away barriers to oral drug delivery	55
Would you risk humanity’s survival on a robot built in two years?	55
A hyperelastic torque-reversal mechanism for soft joints with compression-responsive transient bistability	54
Teaching robots the art of human social synchrony	54
Soft robotic artificial left ventricle simulator capable of reproducing myocardial biomechanics	54
Light-powered soft steam engines for self-adaptive oscillation and biomimetic swimming	53
A meta-analysis on the effectiveness of anthropomorphism in human-robot interaction	52
Explosion-powered eversible tactile displays	52
Learning high-speed flight in the wild	51
Enhancing social connectedness with companion robots using AI	51

The force has limits: Molecular motors in robotics	50
Acrobatics at the insect scale: A durable, precise, and agile micro–aerial robot	50
Magnetic robots make headway in medicine	48
AI-driven aerial robots advance whale research	47
Tracking hand movements with a smart glove	47
Development of compositionality through interactive learning of language and action of robots	46
Five years of Science Robotics	46
Autonomous surface sampling for the Europa Lander mission concept	45
Robotic end-to-end fusion of microtubules powered by kinesin	45
Visual-inertial hand motion tracking with robustness against occlusion, interference, and contact	44
Knowledge before faith is the motto of a robot pope	44
Surgical embodied intelligence for generalized task autonomy in laparoscopic robot-assisted surgery	44
How much initiative should a service robot have?	43
Robotic manipulation of cardiomyocytes to identify gap junction modifiers for arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy	43
Self-organizing nervous systems for robot swarms	43
Neuroprosthesis converts brain activity to speech	43
Hexagonal electrohydraulic modules for rapidly reconfigurable high-speed robots	42
Bot self-destruction memes are no laughing matter in science fiction	42
Float like a butterfly, swim like a biohybrid neuromuscular robot	40
Good old-fashioned engineering can close the 100,000-year “data gap” in robotics	40
A retrospective of Isaac Asimov at 102 and his Three Laws	39
Estimating human joint moments unifies exoskeleton control, reducing user effort	39
Solar-powered shape-changing origami microfliers	39
Light-emitting, self-healing robotic fibers	38
Bilateral Back Extensor Exosuit for multidimensional assistance and prevention of spinal injuries	37
Visual route following for tiny autonomous robots	37
Insect-inspired AI for autonomous robots	36
Robot therapy pets get a starring role in Lightyear and in real life	36
Equalizing access: How robotics and AI can transform surgical care worldwide	35
Biohybrid hand actuated by multiple human muscle tissues	35
Dexterous helical magnetic robot for improved endovascular access	34
Microscopic robots with onboard digital control	34
User preference optimization for control of ankle exoskeletons using sample efficient active learning	34
Remote magnetic navigation enables precision telesurgery	34
Cooperative robotic exploration of a planetary skylight surface and lava cave	34
Animal robots in the African wilderness: Lessons learned and outlook for field robotics	33
Preventing pressure ulcers by increasing pressure: An unorthodox alternating-pressure mattress	33
Restoration of tactile sensation in bionic hands	33
The original “I, Robot” featured a murderous robot and the Frankenstein complex	33
Understanding brain functional architecture through robotics	32
Erratum for the Research Article “Fully neuromorphic vision and control for autonomous drone flight” by F. Paredes-Vallés et al .	32
Wirelessly steerable bioelectronic neuromuscular robots adapting neurocardiac junctions	32
Running birds reveal secrets for legged robot design	31
Attention-based map encoding for learning generalized legged locomotion	31
Co-bots get the good jobs while workers get a human-robot interaction nightmare	31
Neuromorphic sequence learning with an event camera on routes through vegetation	31
The relevance of signal timing in human-robot collaborative manipulation	31
Robots and animals teaming up in the wild to tackle ecosystem challenges	29
Touching reality: Bridging the user-researcher divide in upper-limb prosthetics	29
Overcoming adversaries in multirobot navigation	27
Enhancing scientific exploration of the deep sea through shared autonomy in remote manipulation	27
Biohybrid robot contracts like the human iris	27
Using machine learning and robotics to discover plastic substitutes	27
Preventing antisocial robots: A pathway to artificial empathy	27
A portable inflatable soft wearable robot to assist the shoulder during industrial work	26
Reverse engineering the control law for schooling in zebrafish using virtual reality	25
Would a robot ever get angry enough to attack a person?	25
Variable-stiffness–morphing wheel inspired by the surface tension of a liquid droplet	25
Exploring planet geology through force-feedback telemanipulation from orbit	25
BirdBot achieves energy-efficient gait with minimal control using avian-inspired leg clutching	25
Brain-inspired multimodal hybrid neural network for robot place recognition	25
Safe radiation surveillance using uncrewed vehicles	24
Modulation of Achilles tendon force with load carriage and exosuit assistance	23
Multimodal soft valve enables physical responsiveness for preemptive resilience of soft robots	23
Multimodal sensing and intuitive steering assistance improve navigation and mobility for people with impaired vision	22
The future lies in a pair of tactile hands	22
Metabolically efficient walking assistance using optimized timed forces at the waist	22
Mechanical neural networks: Architected materials that learn behaviors	22
Dynamic robotic tracking of underwater targets using reinforcement learning	21
Human motor augmentation with an extra robotic arm without functional interference	21
Accessing the brain with soft deployable electrocorticography arrays	20
Understanding the sense of self through robotics	18
Photocatalytic microrobots for treating bacterial infections deep within sinuses	18
Will your next surgeon be a robot? Autonomy and AI in robotic surgery	18
Danger! This robot may be trying to manipulate you	17
Laser-assisted failure recovery for dielectric elastomer actuators in aerial robots	17
Sensor-level computer vision with pixel processor arrays for agile robots	17
Harnessing the oloid shape in magnetically driven robots to enable high-resolution ultrasound imaging	17
Soft robot–mediated autonomous adaptation to fibrotic capsule formation for improved drug delivery	17
Robot Operating System 2: Design, architecture, and uses in the wild	16

Drone-assisted collection of environmental DNA from tree branches for biodiversity monitoring	16
Embodying soft robots with octopus-inspired hierarchical suction intelligence	16
RoboCap: Robotic mucus-clearing capsule for enhanced drug delivery in the gastrointestinal tract	16
Highly agile flat swimming robot	16
3D-printed digital pneumatic logic for the control of soft robotic actuators	16
The AI Act Grand Challenge shows how autonomous robots will be regulated	15
Overcoming the challenges that women in robotics face	15
Electronics-free soft robot has a nice ring to it	15
Tactile sensors need a greater sense of purpose	15
Preclinical upper limb neurorobotic platform to assess, rehabilitate, and develop therapies	15
Virtual elasto-plastic robot compliance to active environments	15
Cooperative cargo transportation by a swarm of molecular machines	14
A gyroscope-free visual-inertial flight control and wind sensing system for 10-mg robots	14
Scale-inspired programmable robotic structures with concurrent shape morphing and stiffness variation	14
SRT-H: A hierarchical framework for autonomous surgery via language-conditioned imitation learning	14
Teaching a single-arm robot to fold towels	14
Liquid-amplified zipping actuators for micro-air vehicles with transmission-free flapping	14
Haptic perception using optoelectronic robotic flesh for embodied artificially intelligent agents	14
Stretchable Arduinos embedded in soft robots	14
Robot behavior that can adapt to user interaction	13
Exploring beyond Earth using space robotics	13
Harnessing emotion and intonation in speech to improve robot acceptance	12
Si chiplet–controlled 3D modular microrobots with smart communication in natural aqueous environments	12
Taking control: Steering the future of biohybrid robots	12
Erratum for the Research Article “Safety-assured high-speed navigation for MAVs” by Y. Ren et al .	12
A professional slackliner robot	12
Soft robotic patient-specific hydrodynamic model of aortic stenosis and ventricular remodeling	11
Bioinspired, ingestible electroceutical capsules for hunger-regulating hormone modulation	11
In situ bidirectional human-robot value alignment	11
Sunlight-powered self-excited oscillators for sustainable autonomous soft robotics	11
NeuralFeels with neural fields: Visuotactile perception for in-hand manipulation	10
Human-scale navigation of magnetic microrobots in hepatic arteries	10
Human-robot facial coexpression	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
Untethered unidirectionally crawling gels driven by asymmetry in contact forces	10
A powered prosthesis supports weight-bearing stand-to-sit transitions	10
Exoskeletons need to react faster than physiological responses to improve standing balance	10
“Data will solve robotics and automation: True or false?”: A debate	9
Dynamic tactility by position-encoded spike spectrum	9
Haptiknit: Distributed stiffness knitting for wearable haptics	9
Effective and natural human-robot interaction requires multidisciplinary research	9
The novel Player Piano started the familiar discordant tune on the rise of automation	9
Individualization of exosuit assistance based on measured muscle dynamics during versatile walking	9
A framework for robotic excavation and dry stone construction using on-site materials	9
What will robots think of us?	9
Medical robots learn to be autonomous	8
Closed-loop optogenetic neuromodulation enables high-fidelity fatigue-resistant muscle control	8
Robots at the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics	8
A call for diversity, equity, and inclusion in robotics	8
Octopus-inspired sensorized soft arm for environmental interaction	8
The grand challenges of learning medical robot autonomy	8
Assistive robots would regret a robot uprising	7
Robot swarms neutralize harmful Byzantine robots using a blockchain-based token economy	7
Monopedal robot branch-to-branch leaping and landing inspired by squirrel balance control	7
A highly integrated bionic hand with neural control and feedback for use in daily life	7
Physical control: A new avenue to achieve intelligence in soft robotics	7
Social robot for at-home cognitive monitoring	7
Autonomous robotics is driving Perseverance rover’s progress on Mars	7
Soft robotic platform for progressive and reversible aortic constriction in a small-animal model	7
Harnessing the circular economy to develop sustainable soft robots	7
Motion planning around obstacles with convex optimization	7
Autonomous robotic laparoscopic surgery for intestinal anastomosis	6
Bistable soft jumper capable of fast response and high takeoff velocity	6
Even teleoperated robots are discriminated against in science fictions	6
Intrinsic sense of touch for intuitive physical human-robot interaction	6
Field deployment of Wolbachia -infected Aedes aegypti using uncrewed aerial vehicle	6
Telesurgery and the importance of context	6
Avian eye–inspired artificial vision takes a step forward	6
Wearable robot provides lumbar and arm support	6
Swimming in the “Matrix”: VR fish pass the Turing test using a simple control law for collective behavior	6