Biological organisms learn from interactions with their environment throughout their lifetime.
For artificial systems to successfully act and adapt in the real world, it is desirable to similarly …

One of the ambitions of Science Robotics is to deeply root robotics research in science while
develo** novel robotic platforms that will enable new scientific discoveries. Of our 10 …

The current proliferation of mobile robots spans ecological monitoring, warehouse
management and extreme environment exploration, to an individual consumer's home …

Personalized exoskeleton assistance provides users with the largest improvements in
walking speed and energy economy,–but requires lengthy tests under unnatural laboratory …

The functionalities of the untethered miniature swimming robots significantly decrease as the
robot size becomes smaller, due to limitations of feasible miniaturized on-board …

Existing robots capable of climbing walls mostly rely on rigid actuators such as electric
motors, but soft wall-climbing robots based on muscle-like actuators have not yet been …

Recreating complex structures and functions of natural organisms in a synthetic form is a
long-standing goal for humanity. The aim is to create actuated systems with high spatial …

Undulatory swimming represents an ideal behavior to investigate locomotion control and the
role of the underlying central and peripheral components in the spinal cord. Many vertebrate …

Exoskeletons and active prostheses promise to enhance human mobility, but few have
succeeded. Optimizing device characteristics on the basis of measured human performance …