Science Robotics

Article	Citations
Early science fiction got microbots surprisingly right	272
Ted Chiang imagines a computational theory of robots	259
The cold truth about robotics research in the United Kingdom as a Caribbean woman	205
The greatest challenge for prosthetics may be social, not neural, connections	198
Culturally competent social robots target inclusion in Africa	190
Robot-mediated haptic feedback outperforms vision in violin duo coordination	176
Monte Carlo tree search with spectral expansion for planning with dynamical systems	163
Coordinated behavior of autonomous microscopic machines through local electronic pulse coupling	163
Cross-link collective: Entangled robotic matter with cohesive motion	161
Ajna: Generalized deep uncertainty for minimal perception on parsimonious robots	158
Morphological computation and decentralized learning in a swarm of sterically interacting robots	155
Wireless flow-powered miniature robot capable of traversing tubular structures	153
Biohybrid microrobots regulate colonic cytokines and the epithelium barrier in inflammatory bowel disease	141
High-speed control and navigation for quadrupedal robots on complex and discrete terrain	136
From motor control to team play in simulated humanoid football	128
Adaptive active solids	123
A self-guided intubation device	120
Toward self-contained bidirectional bionic limbs with high information throughput	120
Embodied aerial physical interaction: Combining body and brain for robust interaction with unstructured environments	117
Autonomous tracking of honey bee behaviors over long-term periods with cooperating robots	116
Advancing physical intelligence for autonomous soft robots	116
Accelerating discovery in natural science laboratories with AI and robotics: Perspectives and challenges	116
Crawling, climbing, perching, and flying by FiBa soft robots	115
The neuromechanics of animal locomotion: From biology to robotics and back	110
Reversible kink instability drives ultrafast jumping in nematodes and soft robots	107

Remote control of muscle-driven miniature robots with battery-free wireless optoelectronics	106
Surmounting the ceiling effect of motor expertise by novel sensory experience with a hand exoskeleton	105
Modular reconfiguration of DNA origami assemblies using tile displacement	105
Achieving animal endurance in robots through advanced energy storage	101
Wearable robots for the real world need vision	96
Magnetically actuated gearbox for the wireless control of millimeter-scale robots	90
Virus-blocking mosquitoes take flight in the fight against dengue	90
Robotically steerable guidewires—Current trends and future directions	90
Robotic manipulation of human bipedalism reveals overlapping internal representations of space and time	89
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	88
Fly motion vision maximizes signal energy transfer between mechanical input and sensor output	87
Therapist-exoskeleton-patient interaction for gait therapy	87
The role of low-cost robots in the future of spaceflight	87
Stop chasing identical outcomes in HRI replication: Learn from the differences	87
The codevelopment of soft robotics and assistive technology	87
MOGrip: Gripper for multiobject grasping in pick-and-place tasks using translational movements of fingers	84
Optogenetic neuromuscular actuation of a miniature electronic biohybrid robot	84
Neural prosthesis control restores near-normative neuromechanics in standing postural control	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	80
Merging motoneuron and postural synergies in prosthetic hand design for natural bionic interfacing	78
Excitation of natural spinal reflex loops in the sensory-motor control of hand prostheses	76
Head-mounted surgical robots are an enabling technology for subretinal injections	76
Understanding humanoid robots could save your life	76
Translational bottlenecks for biohybrid microrobots	76
High-tech guardians: Robotics at the heart of the Future Circular Collider	74
Vibrotactile feedback aids prosthesis usability	73
Autonomous seeking and mapping coral reef biodiversity hotspots with a multimodal AUV	72
Acceptance of humanoid robots: A psychological perspective	72
A retrieval-augmented framework enabling VLM spatial awareness for object-centric robot manipulation	71
Assistive robotics should seamlessly integrate humans and robots	71
Increasing the payload capacity of soft robot arms by localized stiffening	70
Effect of hip abduction assistance on metabolic cost and balance during human walking	70
Unlocking aerobatic potential of quadcopters: Autonomous freestyle flight generation and execution	70
Reconfigurable self-assembled DNA devices	69
OpenExo: An open-source modular exoskeleton to augment human function	69
Bioinspired designer DNA NanoGripper for virus sensing and potential inhibition	68
A robotic honeycomb for interaction with a honeybee colony	68
Ultralight, strong, and self-reprogrammable mechanical metamaterials	66
Tracking and navigation of a microswarm under laser speckle contrast imaging for targeted delivery	65
Would you risk humanity’s survival on a robot built in two years?	64
It is hard to be a robot in the wild	64
Autonomous boat navigation in the real world	63
A hyperelastic torque-reversal mechanism for soft joints with compression-responsive transient bistability	62
Cross-robot behavior adaptation through intention alignment	62
DNA origami snaps into place	62
Soft robotic artificial left ventricle simulator capable of reproducing myocardial biomechanics	59
Clearing away barriers to oral drug delivery	59
Explosion-powered eversible tactile displays	56
Enhancing social connectedness with companion robots using AI	55

Teaching robots the art of human social synchrony	55
Magnetic robots make headway in medicine	52
AI-driven aerial robots advance whale research	52
How can educational robots enhance family life? Through careful integration	52
Tracking hand movements with a smart glove	51
Autonomous surface sampling for the Europa Lander mission concept	50
RoboBallet: Planning for multirobot reaching with graph neural networks and reinforcement learning	50
Development of compositionality through interactive learning of language and action of robots	50
Acrobatics at the insect scale: A durable, precise, and agile micro–aerial robot	48
The force has limits: Molecular motors in robotics	47
A high-endurance DNA origami snap-through switch for functional nanoscale control	46
Knowledge before faith is the motto of a robot pope	46
Multilevel dynamics of the brain, hormones, mind, and behavior in social human-robot interaction	46
How much initiative should a service robot have?	45
Scalable robot collective resilience by sharing resources	45
Bot self-destruction memes are no laughing matter in science fiction	45
Float like a butterfly, swim like a biohybrid neuromuscular robot	44
Good old-fashioned engineering can close the 100,000-year “data gap” in robotics	43
An ingestible capsule for luminance-based diagnosis of mesenteric ischemia	43
Deep domain adaptation eliminates costly data required for task-agnostic wearable robotic control	43
Electrofluidic fiber muscles	42
Neuroprosthesis converts brain activity to speech	42
A review of learning-based dynamics models for robotic manipulation	40
Self-organizing nervous systems for robot swarms	39
Robotic manipulation of cardiomyocytes to identify gap junction modifiers for arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy	39
Hexagonal electrohydraulic modules for rapidly reconfigurable high-speed robots	38
Surgical embodied intelligence for generalized task autonomy in laparoscopic robot-assisted surgery	38
Solar-powered shape-changing origami microfliers	38
A retrospective of Isaac Asimov at 102 and his Three Laws	37
Estimating human joint moments unifies exoskeleton control, reducing user effort	37
Bilateral Back Extensor Exosuit for multidimensional assistance and prevention of spinal injuries	36
Reconfigurable aerial robot for subterranean mine inspection	36
Equalizing access: How robotics and AI can transform surgical care worldwide	36
Light-emitting, self-healing robotic fibers	36
Cooperative robotic exploration of a planetary skylight surface and lava cave	35
Biohybrid hand actuated by multiple human muscle tissues	35
Remote magnetic navigation enables precision telesurgery	35
Visual route following for tiny autonomous robots	35
Soft deployable airless wheel for lunar lava tube intact exploration	34
User preference optimization for control of ankle exoskeletons using sample efficient active learning	34
Dexterous helical magnetic robot for improved endovascular access	34
Microscopic robots with onboard digital control	34
Wirelessly steerable bioelectronic neuromuscular robots adapting neurocardiac junctions	33
The original “I, Robot” featured a murderous robot and the Frankenstein complex	32
Restoration of tactile sensation in bionic hands	32
Preventing pressure ulcers by increasing pressure: An unorthodox alternating-pressure mattress	32
Understanding brain functional architecture through robotics	32
Neuromorphic sequence learning with an event camera on routes through vegetation	32
Erratum for the Research Article “Fully neuromorphic vision and control for autonomous drone flight” by F. Paredes-Vallés et al .	32
Animal robots in the African wilderness: Lessons learned and outlook for field robotics	30
Biohybrid robot contracts like the human iris	30
Attention-based map encoding for learning generalized legged locomotion	30
Overcoming adversaries in multirobot navigation	30
Touching reality: Bridging the user-researcher divide in upper-limb prosthetics	29
Reverse engineering the control law for schooling in zebrafish using virtual reality	29
Using machine learning and robotics to discover plastic substitutes	29
Robots and animals teaming up in the wild to tackle ecosystem challenges	29
Enhancing scientific exploration of the deep sea through shared autonomy in remote manipulation	28
Preventing antisocial robots: A pathway to artificial empathy	28
A portable inflatable soft wearable robot to assist the shoulder during industrial work	28
Learning flight navigation like a honey bee	28
The Omnia bionic leg with a semipowered knee and ankle wins the Cybathlon 2024 leg prosthesis race	27
Variable-stiffness–morphing wheel inspired by the surface tension of a liquid droplet	26
Would a robot ever get angry enough to attack a person?	26
Flow-driven magnetic microcatheter for superselective arterial embolization	26
Multimodal soft valve enables physical responsiveness for preemptive resilience of soft robots	24
Collision-tolerant deformable quadrotor arms	23
Human motor augmentation with an extra robotic arm without functional interference	23
The future lies in a pair of tactile hands	23
Safe radiation surveillance using uncrewed vehicles	23
Brain-inspired multimodal hybrid neural network for robot place recognition	22
Dynamic robotic tracking of underwater targets using reinforcement learning	22
Modulation of Achilles tendon force with load carriage and exosuit assistance	22
Resilient odometry via hierarchical adaptation	22
RoboCap: Robotic mucus-clearing capsule for enhanced drug delivery in the gastrointestinal tract	21
Mechanical neural networks: Architected materials that learn behaviors	21
Accessing the brain with soft deployable electrocorticography arrays	21
Understanding the sense of self through robotics	21
Is intermittent swimming lazy or clever?	21
The microDelta: Downscaling robot mechanisms enables ultrafast and high-precision movement	20

Soft robot–mediated autonomous adaptation to fibrotic capsule formation for improved drug delivery	20
Harnessing the oloid shape in magnetically driven robots to enable high-resolution ultrasound imaging	20
3D-printed digital pneumatic logic for the control of soft robotic actuators	19
Will your next surgeon be a robot? Autonomy and AI in robotic surgery	19
Embodying soft robots with octopus-inspired hierarchical suction intelligence	19
Drone-assisted collection of environmental DNA from tree branches for biodiversity monitoring	19
Highly agile flat swimming robot	19
Laser-assisted failure recovery for dielectric elastomer actuators in aerial robots	19
Photocatalytic microrobots for treating bacterial infections deep within sinuses	19
A gyroscope-free visual-inertial flight control and wind sensing system for 10-mg robots	18
Overcoming the challenges that women in robotics face	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	18
Robots do not like Asimov’s three laws	18
Teaching a single-arm robot to fold towels	18
Scale-inspired programmable robotic structures with concurrent shape morphing and stiffness variation	17
Bioinspired, ingestible electroceutical capsules for hunger-regulating hormone modulation	17
Erratum for the Research Article “Observing a robot peer’s failures facilitates students’ classroom learning”	17
SRT-H: A hierarchical framework for autonomous surgery via language-conditioned imitation learning	17
Stretchable Arduinos embedded in soft robots	17
Virtual elasto-plastic robot compliance to active environments	17
Erratum for the Research Article “Safety-assured high-speed navigation for MAVs” by Y. Ren et al .	16
Harnessing emotion and intonation in speech to improve robot acceptance	16
Taking control: Steering the future of biohybrid robots	16
Exploring beyond Earth using space robotics	15
Beyond alignment: Why robotic foundation models need context-aware safety	15
Soft robotic patient-specific hydrodynamic model of aortic stenosis and ventricular remodeling	15
Agile and cooperative aerial manipulation of a cable-suspended load	15
Exoskeletons need to react faster than physiological responses to improve standing balance	15
Robot behavior that can adapt to user interaction	15
Sunlight-powered self-excited oscillators for sustainable autonomous soft robotics	15
NeuralFeels with neural fields: Visuotactile perception for in-hand manipulation	14
Modular reconfigurable robots: Toward on-demand multifunctional applications	14
“Data will solve robotics and automation: True or false?”: A debate	14
Si chiplet–controlled 3D modular microrobots with smart communication in natural aqueous environments	14
Human-scale navigation of magnetic microrobots in hepatic arteries	14
Transfer learning in robotics: From promises to practice through the emerging role of foundation models	14
A powered prosthesis supports weight-bearing stand-to-sit transitions	14
Untethered unidirectionally crawling gels driven by asymmetry in contact forces	14
M3GAN : The real horror is the lack of ethics in robotics	14
Embodied or virtually represented: Navigating the embodiment debate in human-robot interaction	14
Visual-tactile pretraining and online multitask learning for humanlike manipulation dexterity	13
Adaptive humanlike grasping	13
Human-robot facial coexpression	13
Toward measurement of muscle forces during movement	13
A framework for robotic excavation and dry stone construction using on-site materials	13
Medical robots learn to be autonomous	13
A call for diversity, equity, and inclusion in robotics	12
Octopus-inspired sensorized soft arm for environmental interaction	12
The novel Player Piano started the familiar discordant tune on the rise of automation	12
The grand challenges of learning medical robot autonomy	12
What will robots think of us?	12
Haptiknit: Distributed stiffness knitting for wearable haptics	12
Closed-loop optogenetic neuromodulation enables high-fidelity fatigue-resistant muscle control	12
Designing microrobots with embodied physical intelligence	11
Robot swarms neutralize harmful Byzantine robots using a blockchain-based token economy	11
Assistive robots would regret a robot uprising	11
Avian eye–inspired artificial vision takes a step forward	11
Is your robot vacuum cleaner spying on you?	11
Social robot for at-home cognitive monitoring	11
Energy efficiency and neural control of continuous versus intermittent swimming in a fishlike robot	11
Physical control: A new avenue to achieve intelligence in soft robotics	11
Intrinsic sense of touch for intuitive physical human-robot interaction	10
Bioinspired adaptive pupil reflex based on liquid-metal shape-shifters for machine vision	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
Monopedal robot branch-to-branch leaping and landing inspired by squirrel balance control	10
Bistable soft jumper capable of fast response and high takeoff velocity	10
Soft robotic platform for progressive and reversible aortic constriction in a small-animal model	10
Wearable robot provides lumbar and arm support	9
Robotic self-modulation enhances implantable long-acting drug delivery devices	9
Motion planning around obstacles with convex optimization	9
Even teleoperated robots are discriminated against in science fictions	9
Swimming in the “Matrix”: VR fish pass the Turing test using a simple control law for collective behavior	8
The robots in the Val Kilmer movie Red Planet predated Perseverance and Ingenuity	8