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Official Twitter account of the journal Science Robotics. Also find us on Facebook: https://t.co/EI6szHLWIb
Joined October 2015
This month's special issue of Science #Robotics highlights embodied intelligence. The cover depicts a human-inspired robotic hand with dexterous manipulation and an octopus-inspired arm with intelligent suckers. Read more:
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The May issue of Science #Robotics is now out!. The cover study features a new system that can help robots to recognize places by using a novel brain-inspired sensing approach.
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A new Science #Robotics study describes how 30 minutes of passive training with a hand #exoskeleton robot can improve motor skills and finger coordination in trained pianists enabling them to play a challenging chord trill.
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A @UCL_ICN, @PlasticityUCL study of human hand #augmentation in 36 participants suggests that our brains can readily adapt to an extra thumb, but using the additional appendage may alter the relationship between the #brain and biological hand. #robots
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Researchers have developed an adjustable wheel that can change its shape in real time to overcome obstacles on the ground. Read that study and more in the August issue of Science #Robotics:
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The October issue of Science #Robotics has arrived! . Roboticists present new advances in prosthetics, including a prosthetic foot that replicates neural sensations to allow its users to walk more naturally, and a three-year case study of a bionic hand.
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Read how a swarm of micro flying #robots was capable of navigating in a dense forest whilst avoiding obstacles as well as tracking targets. @ZJU_China . 📄: Focus:
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The July issue of Science #Robotics is out! . The cover features a team of legged robots consisting of a scout, a hybrid, and a scientist. Other work features a Viewpoint on artificial empathy and a Focus on social companion robots.
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#DeepLearning and manual training taught a #robot to open a door successfully more than 96% of the time, completing 15 rounds of back-and-forth in 30 minutes. @tetsuyaogata1 @Hitachi_Japan @HitachiGlobal @waseda_univ @tetsuyaogata1.📎:
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The first 2025 issue of Science #Robotics is out!. The cover features a robotic hand #exoskeleton that can help trained pianists overcome learning plateaus by passively training their fingers to move faster.
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The first 2024 issue of Science #Robotics is now live!. The January cover shows a robotic system that uses reconfigurable metamaterials to build light and strong structures, with the potential for space construction projects.
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The November issue of Science #Robotics is out!. The cover features a multi-fingered robot that rotates a wooden die to pick up tactile data. A #NeuralField-based framework combines this touch data with camera vision to perceive the shape of the object.
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Thanks in large part to the novel design of its magnetic feet, a quadrupedal climbing robot is faster and more agile than existing climbing robots. @kaistpr
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New @veritasium video features 3 recent @SciRobotics studies involving #magnetic #microrobots that readily change shapes, form swarms and clear biofilms.
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"Metal or muscle? The future of biologically inspired #robots," according to Barry Andrew Trimmer from @TuftsEngineer. Read the new Focus piece here:
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#Robots of the future may be softer, squishier and bendier than robots today. But why soft robots? One of their most promising applications may be in #space. Check out @veritasium's new video, featuring research from #ScienceRobotics:
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Researchers have developed a strategy for robot trajectory following that is inspired by desert ants to enable small drones to navigate without the need for high computational demands. Read that research and more in July's issue of Science #Robotics:
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Scientists have developed a framework that enables robots to estimate 3D shapes of unfamiliar everyday objects by combining visual and tactile information. @CMU_Robotics @AIatMeta. Read more in Science #Robotics:
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Researchers at @GoogleDeepMind used deep reinforcement learning to train humanoid bipedal robots to play agile one-on-one soccer with each other. Read more in Science #Robotics: #deepRL
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Why can animals outrun robots? . The answer lies in integrated systems, according to a new Science #Robotics Review.
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To build tiny #robots, you need tiny robot-building tools. A new platform built by @PolytechBXL, @ULBruxelles scientists demonstrates how the water’s surface can act as an effective assembly stage for #microrobots:
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A new technique for controlling #prosthetic limbs by @uniGoettingen scientists allows a person to move respective parts of the limb in different directions at once -- more like #natural limb motion:
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The June issue of Science #Robotics is now out!. The cover spotlights a new framework that created airtight, electronics-free, soft grippers that held onto and released objects by responding to gravity sensors or contact.
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The April issue of Science #Robotics is now out!. The cover study features a liquid neural network that enabled quadrotor robots to navigate to specific targets in settings distinct from their training environments.
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Soft #robots may now be able to prevent instability by sweating off excess heat, thanks to a new actuator design by @CornellMAE, @CornellMSE #engineers inspired by mammalian cooling systems:
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A new Review in Science #Robotics discusses #paleoinspired robotics, or the use of robots to understand how extinct animals moved in their environments. @Cambridge_Eng
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The September issue of Science #Robotics is out!. The cover features a robotic #prosthetic hand that can restore deft motor skills after #amputation. The device uses embedded magnets to detect muscle contractions and decode the user's intended movements.
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The May issue of Science #Robotics is out! . Taking inspiration from a robber fly’s eye, researchers developed a lens-free pinhole compound eye with a perovskite nanowire photodetector array. It exhibited a wide field of view and dynamic motion tracking.
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Inspired by praying mantis vision, @UVAEngineers created stereoscopic robotic compound eyes that have wide-angle views and can sense and track objects moving in 3D space. Learn more in Science #Robotics:
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April's Special Section on #electronic skins is out! Includes a review on e-skin and research on a new sweat-powered e-skin that can monitor metabolic activity and be used to control #prosthetics. Check them out here:
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.@MPI_IS scientists found that the fastest magnetic helical #microrobot may not be the safest for the body. Based on these results, they engineered “immunobots" that can move effectively and function in harmony with the #immune system: #robotics
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Thanks to its self-rotate ability, a new, highly energy efficient drone can detect and respond to obstacles with its LiDAR sensor during various testing scenarios, including mapping and exploration of a cave.
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February's issue of Science Robotics is out!. The cover study shows that exoskeleton boots improve standing balance when they react to instability before their wearers do. Other work includes an artificial vision system inspired by how cuttlefish see:
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The December issue of Science #Robotics is out!. This month's cover features a robotic spacecraft simulator using SETS, a real-time planning algorithm, to assist with #autonomous decision-making in a simulated frictionless environment. Learn more:
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The new September cover of Science #Robotics is out! In this Special Issue on Human-Robot Interaction, #prosthetics users test a human-machine interface that stimulates limb embodiment; a robot's gaze may influence our decision-making; and more to come:
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The April issue of Science #Robotics is now out!. Miniature robots trained using deep #ReinforcementLearning can play one-on-one soccer. They can walk, kick the ball, and recover from falls—and can also adapt to the game with emergent behaviors.
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An electromyographic #EMG-controlled ankle #robotic #prosthesis helps achieve postural stability in lower limb amputees. @jointbme. Read more in Science #Robotics:
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Researchers have developed a portable soft robot, worn like a shirt, that can assist the shoulder muscles during repetitive lifting of the arms during overhead tasks. Read that research and more in this month's issue of Science #Robotics:
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Construction #robot from @stevenkeating & @medialab builds one of the largest #3Dprinted structures, in record time
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Watch how the artificial #spiderweb created by @SNUnow scientists detects, captures, and shakes off objects that touch its strands. A new animation by @ACKdraws. Read more about the study here: and here:
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A recent study showed how targeted motor and sensory reinnervation was used to integrate touch, kinesthesia and motor control with an upper limb #prosthesis. Article: .Focus:
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New #nanotechnology research from @OxfordPhysics presents an all #DNA printer that uses #DNAorigami actuators to precisely print ink in specific locations on a molecular canvas 🔀
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Researchers explored the usability of a 3D-printed device called the Third Thumb at the @royalsociety #SummerScience Exhibition and found it widely usable among young and old, left and right handed people. Learn more in Science #Robotics:
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A Science #Robotics study shares a #NeuralNetwork that helped autonomous drones race at velocities of up to 108 kilometers per hour, beating counterparts piloted by competitive human drone racers. @realyunlong @davsca1
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When tasked with scientific missions on a lunar-like surface, a team of 3 legged robots collected and analyzed data faster than a single robot could. @leggedrobotics @ETH_en. 📄:
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Inspired by wind-vision sensing in fruitflies, scientists designed a gyroscope-free visual-inertial flight control system for milligram-scale "gnat" robots.
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The February issue of Science #Robotics is out!. The cover features a #biohybrid hand powered by bundles of human #muscle tissues. Selective muscle contraction enables control over individual fingers. Learn about this research and more:
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A quadrupedal #robot was capable of climbing on metallic ceilings and walls by using feet made of electro-permanent magnets and magnetorheological elastomers. Learn more:
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The new August issue of Science #Robotics is out! Introducing a methanol-powered beetle bot, flexible zinc-air #batteries, and more to come:
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The study of neuroscience and animal motor control has pivotally influenced robotic locomotion and has also helped robotics to inform basic science, according to a new Review by @ramdya @BIOROB_EPFL @EPFL_en.
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A new @MPI_IS study explored how medical #microrobots impact the #immune system and created proof-of-concept "immunobots" to maximize safety. This represents “the new challenge” in microrobotics, says @EPFL's Mahmut Selman Sakar. Read the discussion here:
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A new gnat-inspired flight control system could help milligram-scale robots stabilize themselves while flying and hovering in response to changing air conditions, without increasing power consumption or mass. @blinkminster @ME_at_UW. 📄:
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A new type of soft pneumatic artificial muscle actuator can be scaled down to 1 centimeter and could enhance functional devices such as #robotic hands. @IITalk @ScuolaSantAnna
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A new Science #Robotics study describes how a robot can recognize and interpret symbols or letters handwritten on its body by using its force-torque sensors with #DeepLearning algorithms.
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A new #DeepLearning control framework can help exosuits for the lower body autonomously adapt to their wearer’s locomotive needs. Now out in Science #Robotics:
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November's issue of Science #Robotics is out!. The cover image features a deep sea mobile robot that has been scouring the seafloor to better understand the deep sea carbon cycle. Read about that research and more:
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A #NeuralNetwork can direct armed robots to pick up and reorient replicas of objects, including a coffee mug, a tea pot, a truck, a duck, an elephant, and a cow. @taochenshh @pulkitology @MIT_CSAIL. Learn more in Science #Robotics:
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The March issue of Science #Robotics is out!. The cover features a parent and child reading a story while interacting with a #SocialRobot. Active participation from social robots can enrich #ParentChild interactions. Read about this research and more:
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In comparison to #drones that use standard cameras, which can take as much as 40 milliseconds⏰ to react, a #drone equipped with event cameras and running on an #algorithm devised by @UZH_ch scientists reacted on an average of 3.5 milliseconds. 📝:
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It’s a cold and dark job, but Benthic Rover II is roaming the seafloor in one-year intervals to help learn about the deep sea carbon cycle, scientists at @MBARI_News and @MLMLmarinesci say.
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A new 3D printing strategy enables monolithic fabrication of complex pneumatic soft robotic grippers. @UCSanDiego. 📄:
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A brain-inspired liquid neural network enhances how effectively autonomous drones can learn to complete tasks when exposed to new surroundings. @makinai_ @ramin_m_h @MIT_CSAIL. Learn more:
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A robotic waist tether pulls at a wearer’s center of mass to reduce the energy needed to walk by 48%, offering a new potential approach for assistive rehabilitation. @UNOBiomechanics @UNOCEHHS
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A new #MachineLearning framework enables robots to self-learn their morphology, kinematics, and topology. Learn more in Science Robotics:
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A planning and control approach from @ETH_en for robots generates versatile whole-body, multi-contact solutions in loco-manipulation tasks.
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The March issue of Science #Robotics is out!. The cover features a damage-resilient dielectric elastomer actuator design that may prolong aerial robots' lifetimes. Other work spotlights an energy-efficient drone that can build 3D reconstructions:
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January's issue of #ScienceRobotics is out now!. The cover study features a drone that can land on tree branches no matter their pliability, offering a better way to collect eDNA from forest canopies and monitor land #biodiversity: #robotics
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It may not be as tasty as a turkey leg, but this bird-inspired robotic leg in Science #Robotics can perch on trees. Learn more on #Thanksgiving:
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Creating artificial empathy is the key to preventing robots and AI from turning malicious, apathetic, and/or antisocial, asserts a new Viewpoint. @ChristovMoore @USC @UCLA
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A new Viewpoint presents a conceptual framework to improve sensing, haptics, and dexterity of robotic devices by integration with human users. @unige_en @aalborg_uni. Read more:
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The August issue of Science #Robotics is out!. The cover spotlights a new learning framework deployed an aerial robot and used for, such as dodging moving and navigating static obstacles. Other studies include advancements in loco-manipulation planning:
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New 3D-printable pneumatic artificial muscle actuators could be used for the control of biomimetic devices. Learn more in #ScienceRobotics: @ScuolaSantAnna @IITalk
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This #ValentinesDay, learn about this biohybrid #robotic #heart composed of organic endocardial tissue and a synthetic myocardium. Check out the Science #Robotics 2020 study:
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We've reached 5,000! A big #ThankYou to all of our followers. Stay tuned for more research on soft, micro, bioinspired, prosthetic #robotics, and #artificialintelligence, from machine learning to language processing, and more!
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A new review outlines the key research themes in #MedicalRobotics for the past decade: robotic #laparoscopy, #capsule robots, and more.
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