Professor of Robotics and Intelligent Systems at ETH Zurich

Joined July 2023
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Mounted on a #drone, a lens-free compound eye with a #perovskite nanowire detector array and #3Dprinted honeycomb optical structure can track a quadrupedal #robot on the ground. 📄: scim.ag/70t
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In @SciRobotics, a wheeled-legged robot based on the #ANYmal platform scoots and climbs its way through the urban environments of Zurich and Seville. Learn more: scim.ag/6XB
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A new #NeuralNetwork significantly lowered the amount of energy that lower limb exosuit users expended when walking on level ground, up inclines, and even climbing stairs. Now out in Science #Robotics: scim.ag/6jX
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Susan Rogers worked with the legendary singer-songwriter before earning a PhD in her 50s on auditory memory and how we listen to music throughout life go.nature.com/3TgYbzp

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A new framework for a dog-like robot called ANYmal improves the bot’s agility, helping it tackle a rudimentary parkour course at a speed of up to 2 meters per second. Learn more in @SciRobotics: scim.ag/6gd
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A new ingestible robotic device electrically stimulates the intestines to trigger the resumption of peristalsis during a form of intestinal paralysis called postoperative ileus. Learn more in @SciRobotics: scim.ag/6fu
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onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/… BTW, Figure 6 is from the ex vivo placenta from my daughter Lily and grandson Ozzy! We couldn't quite justify giving co-authorship to now 8-1/2 month old Ozzy (he just started crawling this week, by the way), but they are in the acknowledgements 😀 .
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A new framework for a dog-like #robot called ANYmal improves the bot’s agility, helping it tackle a rudimentary parkour course at a speed of up to 2 meters per second. @HoellerDavid @NVIDIA @ETH_en Learn more in Science #Robotics: scim.ag/6cJ
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The March issue of Science #Robotics is now out! On the cover, an autonomous snake-like #robot that could one day search for life on the icy, geologically active surface of Saturn's moon Enceladus. scim.ag/6dq
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14 Mar 2024
The advantage of a robotic magnetic catheter in acute ischemic stroke treatment ➖Dexterous helical magnetic robot for improved endovascular access. Read more: science.org/doi/10.1126/scir… @SciRobotics
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The benefits of robotics research in South Africa extends to local science and nature, as shown in a recent @SciRobotics Focus. "Incredible #biodiversity tends to be at the forefront of the conversation" for bio-inspired robotics. scim.ag/6d9
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The benefits of robotics research in South Africa extends to local science and nature, as shown in a recent @SciRobotics Focus. "Incredible #biodiversity tends to be at the forefront of the conversation" for bio-inspired robotics. scim.ag/6aM
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A new electronics-free, air-powered unit shows its usefulness when integrated as a drink dispenser and its resiliency when stepped on and run over by a car. Read more in @SciRobotics: scim.ag/6ah
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Researchers have built microscopic #robots with onboard digital control. The micro-robots can be used to perform autonomous functionality. Learn more in the Science #Robotics research from 2022: scim.ag/697
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The sci-fi future of medical robots is here. In the latest #SciencePodcast🎙️, @SciRobotics Editor Amos Matsiko joins @boron110 to give a run-down of papers in a special series on magnetic robots in medicine. 🎧 Listen here: scim.ag/681
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A new ingestible electronic capsule in Science #Robotics triggers intestinal wall peristalsis via electrical contact with tissue, increasing contractive activity in a pig model of post-operative ileus by 140%. @MIT @BrighamWomens Learn more: scim.ag/67g
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6 Mar 2024
A podcast series within a project? Issues on Targeted Drug Delivery discussed with world renowned experts! Check it out! 🔴YouTube channel: youtube.com/@angie_h2020 🌐h2020-angie.eu/angiepodcast @EUeic @HorizonEU @EU_Commission
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In an Introduction, Science #Robotics’ Editor Amos Matsiko summarizes the journal’s special issue on recent developments in magnetic robots, which "[opens] up new possibilities for diagnostic and therapeutic uses in the clinic." scim.ag/67u
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A new Focus by Science #Robotics Chief Scientific Advisor Bradley Nelson and colleagues demonstrates how surgeons in Arizona used remote magnetic navigation to perform a mechanical thrombectomy successfully on a phantom tissue model in Zurich. scim.ag/66I
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