Science Robotics

New in Science #Robotics: Researchers introduce spectral swarm robotics, an algorithm that helps individual robots swap information to estimate the shape of their swarm, and subsequently the geometrical shape of their environment. @N_LobatoDauzier

How should an underwater exoskeleton be designed to help divers move more efficiently, and are there lessons we can apply from exoskeleton-assisted walking and running? Learn more in this Science #Robotics Focus article:

Embedding structural constraints into policy learning can help robot swarms transfer their learning from simulation to the real world. Learn more in Science #Robotics:

Swarm robots use pairwise interactions to pass information to each other, leading to a global understanding of the swarm’s geometric shape, and subsequently the geometrical shape of the arena in which they reside. Learn more in Science #Robotics:

Introducing Fast Feature Field, an event camera representation for robust robotics perception, learned by predicting future events from past events. Learn how it performed across a variety of robotic platforms in Science #Robotics:

A new Science #Robotics study shares the AI drone racing approach developed by TU Delft researchers that made MonoRace a winner at the 2025 Abu Dhabi Autonomous Drone Racing Competition.

A bicycle robot combines the strengths of wheeled and legged systems to perform acrobatic maneuvers. Learn more in Science #Robotics: @rai_inst

New in Science #Robotics: @CIS_Penn researchers introduce an event camera representation that enabled robust perception across a robotic car, quadruped robot and flying platform in different lighting and environmental conditions.

How did a one-camera drone with no external motion tracking system beat out its autonomous rivals and three champion human pilots on an indoor track? Learn more in Science #Robotics:

New in Science #Robotics: The Ultra Mobility Vehicle bicycle robot leverages its own inertia and momentum to perform jumps, track stands, wheelies and other athletic moves. @rai_inst

The October 2026 issue of Science #Robotics is out! This month’s cover depicts a drone deployed with MonoRace, an onboard framework that enables aerial robots to race autonomously at speeds of up to 100 km/h. Learn about this research and more:

A new Science #Robotics study introduces ALBATROSS, a hybrid aerial-marine robot that could someday be useful in ocean sensing and disaster response. @sutdsg

Inspired by the novel Hole in the Sky by Daniel H. Wilson, @robinrmurphy cautions that robot demonstration videos sometimes imply greater autonomy or reasoning than facts support. Read more in Science #Robotics:

A 185-milligram robot flies freely without a transmission, powering its cone-shaped wings with an electrostrictive actuator. It also stands up to crushing impacts. @UCLAengineering Read more in Science #Robotics:

This bioinspired robot can autorotate after aerial deployment to make a soft landing on water and convert to a sailboat—using only three actuators and three primary sensors. @sutdsg Learn more in Science #Robotics:

New in Science #Robotics: Robot demonstration videos pose issues of reproducibility and legal liability for the community if they imply more autonomy than the facts support.

New in Science #Robotics: This tiny robot flies freely without a transmission, using components that are less rigid than in most micro aerial vehicles #MAVs, and could be scaled to create a microrobot swarm. @UCLAengineering

A new Science #Robotics study introduces ALBATROSS, a hybrid aerial-marine robot that could someday be useful in ocean sensing and disaster response. @sutdsg

Inspired by the novel Hole in the Sky by Daniel H. Wilson, @robinrmurphy cautions that robot demonstration videos sometimes imply greater autonomy or reasoning than facts support. Read more in Science #Robotics:

A 185-milligram robot flies freely without a transmission, powering its cone-shaped wings with an electrostrictive actuator. It also stands up to crushing impacts. @UCLAengineering Read more in Science #Robotics: