1 Guang-Zhong Yang is the founding editor of Science Robotics and the founding dean of the Institute of Medical Robotics, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 200240 Shanghai, PR China. Email: gzyang@sjtu.edu.cn.
2 Steven H. Collins is a professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA.
3 Paolo Dario is a professor in the Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Piazza Martiri della Libertà, 33 56127 Pisa, Italy.
4 Peer Fischer is a professor in the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems and the Institute of Physical Chemistry, University of Stuttgart, 70569 Stuttgart, Germany.
5 Ken Goldberg is a professor in the College of Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720-5800, USA.
6 Cecilia Laschi is a professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, National University of Singapore, 117575, Singapore.
7 Marcia K. McNutt is the president of the National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC 20001, USA.