Ten robotics technologies of the year

Guang-Zhong Yang; Robert J Full; Neil Jacobstein; Peer Fischer; James Bellingham; Howie Choset; Henrik Christensen; Paolo Dario; Bradley J Nelson; Russell Taylor

doi:10.1126/scirobotics.aaw1826

Ten robotics technologies of the year

Sci Robot. 2019 Jan 16;4(26):eaaw1826. doi: 10.1126/scirobotics.aaw1826. Epub 2019 Jan 16.

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Affiliations

¹ Guang-Zhong Yang is the Editor of Science Robotics and Director and Co-founder of the Hamlyn Centre, Imperial College London, London, UK. Email: g.z.yang@imperial.ac.uk.
² Robert J. Full is the Director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Bio-Inspiration in Education and Research (CiBER) and a Professor, Department of Integrative Biology, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA.
³ Neil Jacobstein is a Chair, Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, Singularity University, NASA Research Park, Moffett Field, CA, USA, and a Distinguished Visiting Scholar, MediaX Program, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.
⁴ Peer Fischer is a Professor at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems and the Institute of Physical Chemistry, University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany.
⁵ James Bellingham is the Director of the Center for Marine Robotics, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, USA.
⁶ Howie Choset is a Professor at Carnegie Mellon University and the Robotics Institute, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
⁷ Henrik Christensen is the Director of the Contextual Robotics Institute and Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, Jacobs School of Engineering, University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA, USA.
⁸ Paolo Dario is a Professor at Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa, Italy.
⁹ Bradley J. Nelson is a Professor at ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
¹⁰ Russell Taylor is the Director of the Laboratory for Computational Sensing and Robotics and a Professor at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA.

PMID: 33137759
DOI: 10.1126/scirobotics.aaw1826

Abstract

We identify 10 exciting robotics developments and technologies, ranging from original research that may change the future of robotics to commercial products that enable basic science and drive industrial and medical innovations.

Publication types

Editorial