Science Robotics

Article	Citations
Culturally competent social robots target inclusion in Africa	612
A fictional history of robotics features forgotten real-world robots	419
From motor control to team play in simulated humanoid football	298
Co-designing hardware and control for robot hands	277
Cooperative cargo transportation by a swarm of molecular machines	272
SimPLE, a visuotactile method learned in simulation to precisely pick, localize, regrasp, and place objects	222
Upgrading and extending the life cycle of soft robots with in situ free-form liquid three-dimensional printing	216
Designing a robot to recover a sunken submarine is hard	208
The case against machine vision for the control of wearable robotics: Challenges for commercial adoption	197
Toward three-dimensional DNA industrial nanorobots	196
Teaching a single-arm robot to fold towels	184
Coherent, super-resolved radar beamforming using self-supervised learning	180
Do we really want AI to be human-like?	170
Float like a butterfly, swim like a biohybrid neuromuscular robot	167
Machine learning, robots, and abuse of power	146
Ajna: Generalized deep uncertainty for minimal perception on parsimonious robots	142
The AI Act Grand Challenge shows how autonomous robots will be regulated	138
Unraveling DNA inspires artificial muscle	136
By the time we build robots that care for us, will we be able to care for them?	127
The jig is up for small soft machines	127
Bot self-destruction memes are no laughing matter in science fiction	126
Robotic manipulation of cardiomyocytes to identify gap junction modifiers for arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy	125
Ted Chiang imagines a computational theory of robots	123
Persuasive robots should avoid authority: The effects of formal and real authority on persuasion in human-robot interaction	121
Would robots really bother with a bloody uprising?	113

Engineering and surgical advancements enable more cognitively integrated bionic arms	113
Toward stronger artificial muscles	110
Wild Tech: Exploring South Africa’s unique robotics landscape	109
Robotic assistive technologies get more personal	108
Brief exosuit use improves post-stroke gait	105
A seasonally invariant deep transform for visual terrain-relative navigation	104
Early science fiction got microbots surprisingly right	104
Robot pack mules remain science fiction for now	103
Secure and secret cooperation in robot swarms	103
Overcoming the challenges that women in robotics face	101
“Robots for good”: Ten defining questions	101
Stretchable Arduinos embedded in soft robots	100
Bridging hard and soft: Mechanical metamaterials enable rigid torque transmission in soft robots	98
Harnessing AI and robotics in humanitarian assistance and disaster response	95
Tactile sensors need a greater sense of purpose	93
From individual robots to robot societies	92
Hexagonal electrohydraulic modules for rapidly reconfigurable high-speed robots	90
Using robots to advance clinical translation in neurorehabilitation	89
How much initiative should a service robot have?	86
Self-organizing nervous systems for robot swarms	85
Electronics-free soft robot has a nice ring to it	84
Preclinical upper limb neurorobotic platform to assess, rehabilitate, and develop therapies	83
Reinforcement learning–based framework for whale rendezvous via autonomous sensing robots	82
Coordinated behavior of autonomous microscopic machines through local electronic pulse coupling	81
Microsaccade-inspired event camera for robotics	80
The cold truth about robotics research in the United Kingdom as a Caribbean woman	79
Monte Carlo tree search with spectral expansion for planning with dynamical systems	78
Accelerating the pace of innovation in robotics by fostering diversity and inclusive leadership	75
A gyroscope-free visual-inertial flight control and wind sensing system for 10-mg robots	75
Virtual elasto-plastic robot compliance to active environments	74
Social robots as conversational catalysts: Enhancing long-term human-human interaction at home	74
Upscaling the production of sterile male mosquitoes with an automated pupa sex sorter	71
Toward next-generation learned robot manipulation	70
Reaching the limit in autonomous racing: Optimal control versus reinforcement learning	69
High-resolution outdoor videography of insects using Fast Lock-On tracking	66
Biohybrid microrobots regulate colonic cytokines and the epithelium barrier in inflammatory bowel disease	64
The role of user preference in the customized control of robotic exoskeletons	63
Magnetically actuated dexterous tools for minimally invasive operation inside the brain	62
Liquid-amplified zipping actuators for micro-air vehicles with transmission-free flapping	61
Scale-inspired programmable robotic structures with concurrent shape morphing and stiffness variation	60
Avian eye–inspired perovskite artificial vision system for foveated and multispectral imaging	60
When less is more: Robot swarms adapt better to changes with constrained communication	59
Toward a living soft microrobot through optogenetic locomotion control of Caenorhabditis elegans	58
3D printing of resilient biogels for omnidirectional and exteroceptive soft actuators	57
Solar-powered shape-changing origami microfliers	56
Morphological computation and decentralized learning in a swarm of sterically interacting robots	56
Deployment of an electrocorticography system with a soft robotic actuator	56
A neuromechanics solution for adjustable robot compliance and accuracy	55
Body-powered variable impedance: An approach to augmenting humans with a passive device by reshaping lifting posture	54
Wireless flow-powered miniature robot capable of traversing tubular structures	53

Estimating human joint moments unifies exoskeleton control, reducing user effort	53
Electrospun liquid crystal elastomer microfiber actuator	52
Imaging-guided bioresorbable acoustic hydrogel microrobots	52
Shape morphing mechanical metamaterials through reversible plasticity	51
Haptic perception using optoelectronic robotic flesh for embodied artificially intelligent agents	51
Soft robotic patient-specific hydrodynamic model of aortic stenosis and ventricular remodeling	48
Learning robust perceptive locomotion for quadrupedal robots in the wild	48
Robots can motivate children to practice piano	45
An agile monopedal hopping quadcopter with synergistic hybrid locomotion	45
A springtail-inspired multimodal walking-jumping microrobot	45
Robot swarms meet soft matter physics	45
A guiding light for stimulating paralyzed muscles	44
Autonomous tracking of honey bee behaviors over long-term periods with cooperating robots	44
Robot behavior that can adapt to user interaction	44
Wearable robots for the real world need vision	44
A retrospective of Isaac Asimov at 102 and his Three Laws	44
Modular reconfiguration of DNA origami assemblies using tile displacement	44
Technology matters, especially when deploying robots in the real world	41
Toward self-contained bidirectional bionic limbs with high information throughput	41
The droids in The Mandalorian and The Book of Boba Fett are not wild enough for the real world	41
Robot therapy pets get a starring role in Lightyear and in real life	40
Is “suicide by droid” satire or a real possibility?	40
Optogenetics gets the worm	39
Robots are taming the wild	39
A professional slackliner robot	38
Quantifying stiffness and forces of tumor colonies and embryos using a magnetic microrobot	38
Swarm robots in science fiction	38
Exploring beyond Earth using space robotics	38
Would you trust an intelligent robot?	37
Designing an effective graphic abstract	37
Self-reconfigurable multilegged robot swarms collectively accomplish challenging terradynamic tasks	37
Surmounting the ceiling effect of motor expertise by novel sensory experience with a hand exoskeleton	37
Manipulation for self-Identification, and self-Identification for better manipulation	36
Segmentations in fins enable large morphing amplitudes combined with high flexural stiffness for fish-inspired robotic materials	36
Reducing sprint time with exosuit assistance in the real world	36
High energy density picoliter-scale zinc-air microbatteries for colloidal robotics	34
Getting a grip on reality	34
Web-based distributed robot localization	34
Visual route following for tiny autonomous robots	34
Crawling, climbing, perching, and flying by FiBa soft robots	34
Erratum for the Research Article “Excitation of natural spinal reflex loops in the sensory-motor control of hand prostheses” by P. G. Sagastegui Alva et al .	33
Erratum for the Research Article “Field deployment of Wolbachia -infected Aedes aegypti using uncrewed aerial vehicle” by Y.-H. Lin	33
Bioinspired, ingestible electroceutical capsules for hunger-regulating hormone modulation	31
Light-emitting, self-healing robotic fibers	31
Bioinspired design of a tissue-engineered ray with machine learning	31
Biohybrid hand actuated by multiple human muscle tissues	31
Hard questions for soft robotics	30
Submillimeter-scale multimaterial terrestrial robots	30
Grasping with kirigami shells	30
3D-printed biomimetic artificial muscles using soft actuators that contract and elongate	29
A hierarchical sensorimotor control framework for human-in-the-loop robotic hands	29
Cuttlefish eye–inspired artificial vision for high-quality imaging under uneven illumination conditions	28
Microscopic robots with onboard digital control	28
EELS: Autonomous snake-like robot with task and motion planning capabilities for ice world exploration	28
The neuromechanics of animal locomotion: From biology to robotics and back	27
Using robotics to move a neurosurgeon’s hands to the tip of their endoscope	27
Taking control: Steering the future of biohybrid robots	26
Learning quadrupedal locomotion on deformable terrain	26
User preference optimization for control of ankle exoskeletons using sample efficient active learning	26
A versatile knee exoskeleton mitigates quadriceps fatigue in lifting, lowering, and carrying tasks	26
Magnetic torque–driven living microrobots for increased tumor infiltration	26
ANYmal parkour: Learning agile navigation for quadrupedal robots	25
MiGriBot: A miniature parallel robot with integrated gripping for high-throughput micromanipulation	25
Scientific exploration of challenging planetary analog environments with a team of legged robots	24
Bilateral Back Extensor Exosuit for multidimensional assistance and prevention of spinal injuries	24
Insect-inspired AI for autonomous robots	23
Time-optimal planning for quadrotor waypoint flight	23
Erratum for the Research Article “Safety-assured high-speed navigation for MAVs” by Y. Ren et al .	23
Soft robotic steerable microcatheter for the endovascular treatment of cerebral disorders	23
Conductive block copolymer elastomers and psychophysical thresholding for accurate haptic effects	23
Exoskeletons need to react faster than physiological responses to improve standing balance	23
Harnessing emotion and intonation in speech to improve robot acceptance	23
In situ bidirectional human-robot value alignment	23
The unstable queen: Uncertainty, mechanics, and tactile feedback	22
The beehive of the future is a robot socially interacting with honeybees	22
A buckling-sheet ring oscillator for electronics-free, multimodal locomotion	21
High-performance electrified hydrogel actuators based on wrinkled nanomembrane electrodes for untethered insect-scale soft aquabots	21
Sunlight-powered self-excited oscillators for sustainable autonomous soft robotics	20
Cavatappi artificial muscles from drawing, twisting, and coiling polymer tubes	20
Dexterous helical magnetic robot for improved endovascular access	20

Remote magnetic navigation enables precision telesurgery	20
Complex manipulation with a simple robotic hand through contact breaking and caging	19
M3GAN : The real horror is the lack of ethics in robotics	19
Neglected physical human-robot interaction may explain variable outcomes in gait neurorehabilitation research	19
Somatosensory actuator based on stretchable conductive photothermally responsive hydrogel	19
A powered prosthesis supports weight-bearing stand-to-sit transitions	19
Navigating to objects in the real world	19
Remote control of muscle-driven miniature robots with battery-free wireless optoelectronics	19
Individualization of exosuit assistance based on measured muscle dynamics during versatile walking	19
Robots will open more doors than they close	18
The original “I, Robot” featured a murderous robot and the Frankenstein complex	18
Robots have grasped and manipulated the imagination since 1839	18
Wirelessly steerable bioelectronic neuromuscular robots adapting neurocardiac junctions	16
Mars robots meet bounded rationality	16
The relevance of signal timing in human-robot collaborative manipulation	15
NeuralFeels with neural fields: Visuotactile perception for in-hand manipulation	14
Fully body visual self-modeling of robot morphologies	14
When performing actions with robots, attribution of intentionality affects the sense of joint agency	13
Plantar somatosensory restoration enhances gait, speed perception, and motor adaptation	13
Robot intelligence and applications are as varied as animal intelligence, so why not treat them the same way?	13
The robot explorers	13
Climbing robots in a sticky situation	13
Legged robots beyond bioinspiration	13
Online tree-based planning for active spacecraft fault estimation and collision avoidance	12
Augmented dexterity: How robots can enhance human surgical skills	12
Elastic energy-recycling actuators for efficient robots	12
Autonomous agents for observing marine life	12
The role of low-cost robots in the future of spaceflight	12
Virus-blocking mosquitoes take flight in the fight against dengue	12
Bird-inspired reflexive morphing enables rudderless flight	12
Paleoinspired robotics as an experimental approach to the history of life	12
Cybernetic avatars: Teleoperation technologies from in-body monitoring to social interaction	12
Rethinking computing hardware for robots	12
Promoting diverse and inclusive spaces with intentionality	11
MOGrip: Gripper for multiobject grasping in pick-and-place tasks using translational movements of fingers	11
Erratum for the Research Article “Fully neuromorphic vision and control for autonomous drone flight” by F. Paredes-Vallés et al .	11
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 .	10
Animal robots in the African wilderness: Lessons learned and outlook for field robotics	10
Underwater maneuvering of robotic sheets through buoyancy-mediated active flutter	10
Restoration of tactile sensation in bionic hands	10
Black in Robotics: Improving community and equity in the field of robotics	10
A bioinspired revolving-wing drone with passive attitude stability and efficient hovering flight	10
Effective and natural human-robot interaction requires multidisciplinary research	10
Miniature deep-sea morphable robot with multimodal locomotion	9
Understanding brain functional architecture through robotics	9
Guiding the design of superresolution tactile skins with taxel value isolines theory	9
Neural prosthesis control restores near-normative neuromechanics in standing postural control	9
Neuromorphic sequence learning with an event camera on routes through vegetation	9
Light-driven carbon nitride microswimmers with propulsion in biological and ionic media and responsive on-demand drug delivery	9
Bird-inspired dynamic grasping and perching in arboreal environments	9
Representation granularity enables time-efficient autonomous exploration in large, complex worlds	8
A framework for robotic excavation and dry stone construction using on-site materials	8
Dynamic tactility by position-encoded spike spectrum	8
Surface haptic rendering of virtual shapes through change in surface temperature	8
Magnetically actuated gearbox for the wireless control of millimeter-scale robots	8
Untethered unidirectionally crawling gels driven by asymmetry in contact forces	7
Excitation of natural spinal reflex loops in the sensory-motor control of hand prostheses	7
Ironies of social robotics	7
CERBERUS in the DARPA Subterranean Challenge	7
Emergence of robust self-organized undulatory swimming based on local hydrodynamic force sensing	7
Anti-inflammatory therapy enables robot-actuated regeneration of aged muscle	7
Is it safe to hug a robot like Baymax?	7
Aerial-aquatic robots capable of crossing the air-water boundary and hitchhiking on surfaces	6
Human-robot facial coexpression	6
Human-scale navigation of magnetic microrobots in hepatic arteries	6
Programmable and reprocessable multifunctional elastomeric sheets for soft origami robots	6
All-printed soft human-machine interface for robotic physicochemical sensing	6
Merging motoneuron and postural synergies in prosthetic hand design for natural bionic interfacing	6
Dual high-stroke and high–work capacity artificial muscles inspired by DNA supercoiling	5
A pipeline inspection robot for navigating tubular environments in the sub-centimeter scale	5
A lightweight robotic leg prosthesis replicating the biomechanics of the knee, ankle, and toe joint	5
Seeing through the forest and the trees with drones	5
Neuro-inspired electronic skin for robots	5
Learning agile soccer skills for a bipedal robot with deep reinforcement learning	5
High-tech guardians: Robotics at the heart of the Future Circular Collider	5
Enhancing scientific exploration of the deep sea through shared autonomy in remote manipulation	5
Voxelated three-dimensional miniature magnetic soft machines via multimaterial heterogeneous assembly	5
Magnetic soft microfiberbots for robotic embolization	5
Touching reality: Bridging the user-researcher divide in upper-limb prosthetics	5
Overcoming adversaries in multirobot navigation	5