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Emperical Interference

Haptic Intelligence

Modern Magnetic Systems

Perceiving Systems

Physical Intelligence

Robotic Materials

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Autonomous Learning

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Dynamic Locomotion

Embodied Vision

Human Aspects of Machine Learning

Intelligent Control Systems

Learning and Dynamical Systems

Locomotion in Biorobotic and Somatic Systems

Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems

Movement Generation and Control

Neural Capture and Synthesis

Physics for Inference and Optimization

Organizational Leadership and Diversity

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Physical Intelligence Article A ferroelectric/ferroelastic energy harvester: Load impedance and frequency effects Kang, W., Cain, C., Paynter, R., Huber, J. E. Energy Conversion and Management, 277, 2023 (Published) DOI URL BibTeX

Modern Magnetic Systems Article A squarate-pillared titanium oxide quantum sieve towards practical hydrogen isotope separation Yan, Q., Wang, J., Zhang, L., Liu, J., Wahiduzzaman, M., Yan, N., Yu, L., Dupuis, R., Wang, H., Maurin, G., et al. Nature Communications, 14:4189, Nature Publishing Group, London, 2023 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Article Acoustic Streaming-Induced Multimodal Locomotion of Bubble-Based Microrobots Mahkam, N., Aghakhani, A., Sheehan, D., Gardi, G., Katzschmann, R., Sitti, M. Advanced Science, 10(35):2304233, 2023 () DOI BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Article Acoustic Trapping and Manipulation of Hollow Microparticles under Fluid Flow Using a Single-Lens Focused Ultrasound Transducer Wrede, P., Aghakhani, A., Bozuyuk, U., Yildiz, E., Sitti, M. ACS Applied Materials \& Interfaces, 15(45):52224-52236, 2023 () DOI BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Article Active Tail Configurations for Enhanced Body Reorientation Performance Kim, H., Woodward, M. A., Sitti, M. Advanced Intelligent Systems, 5(2):2200219, 2023 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Article Actuation-enhanced multifunctional sensing and information recognition by magnetic artificial cilia arrays Han, J., Dong, X., Yin, Z., Zhang, S., Li, M., Zheng, Z., Ugurlu, M. C., Jiang, W., Liu, H., Sitti, M. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 120(42):e2308301120, 2023 () DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Article Altered brain dynamics index levels of arousal in complete locked-in syndrome Zilio, F., Gomez-Pilar, J., Chaudhary, U., Fogel, S., Fomina, T., Synofzik, M., Schöls, L., Cao, S., Zhang, J., Huang, Z., et al. Communications Biology, 6(1), 2023 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Materials Article Atomic-resolution observations of silver segregation in a [111] tilt grain boundary in copper Langeohl, L., Brink, T., Richter, G., Dehm, G., Liebscher, C. H. Physical Review B, 107(13):134112, American Physical Society, Woodbury, NY, 2023 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Article Avoiding Shortcut-Learning by Mutual Information Minimization in Deep Learning-Based Image Processing Fay, L., Cobos, E., Yang, B., Gatidis, S., Küstner, T. IEEE Access, 11:64070-64086, 2023 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Movement Generation and Control Empirical Inference Autonomous Motion Article BiConMP: A Nonlinear Model Predictive Control Framework for Whole Body Motion Planning Meduri, A., Shah, P., Viereck, J., Khadiv, M., Havoutis, I., Righetti, L. IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 39(2):905-922, IEEE, 2023 (Published) DOI URL BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Article Bio-inspired rotary flight of light-driven nanocomposite films Wang, D., Chen, Z., Li, M., Hou, Z., Zhan, C., Zheng, Q., Wang, D., Wang, X., Cheng, M., Hu, W., et al. 2023 () DOI BibTeX

Robotic Materials Article Biodegradable Electrohydraulic Actuators for Sustainable Soft Robots Rumley, E. H., Preninger, D., Shagan-Shomron, A., Rothemund, P., Hartmann, F., Baumgartner, M., Kellaris, N., Stojanovic, A., Yoder, Z., Karrer, B., et al. Science Advances, 9(12), 2023, Ellen H. Rumley and David Preninger were co-first authors, and Christoph Keplinger and Martin Kaltenbrunner were shared corresponding authors. (Published) YouTube video DOI BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Article Bioinspired microstructured adhesives with facile and fast switchability for part manipulation in dry and wet conditions Pang, C., Kim, J., Wu, Y., Wang, M. Y., Yu, H., Sitti, M. Advanced Functional Materials, 33(38):2303116, 2023 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Article Bioinspired rotary flight of light-driven composite films Wang, D., Chen, Z., Li, M., Hou, Z., Zhan, C., Zheng, Q., Wang, D., Wang, X., Cheng, M., Hu, W., et al. Nature Communications, 14(1):5070, 2023 () DOI BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Article Bioinspired self-assembled colloidal collectives drifting in three dimensions underwater Sun, M., Yang, S., Jiang, J., Jiang, S., Sitti, M., Zhang, L. Science Advances, 9(45):eadj4201, 2023 () DOI BibTeX

Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems Article Biomolecular actuators for genetically selective acoustic manipulation of cells Wu, D., Baresch, D., Cook, C., Ma, Z., Duan, M., Malounda, D., Maresca, D., Abundo, M. P., Lee, J., Shivaei, S., et al. Science Advances, 9(8):eadd9186, AAAS, Washington, 2023 (Published) DOI URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Miscellaneous Borges und die Künstliche Intelligenz Bottou, L., Schölkopf, B. 2023, published in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 18 December 2023, Nr. 294 (Published) PDF BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Article Broad-Wavelength Light-Driven High-Speed Hybrid Crystal Actuators Actuated Inside Tissue-Like Phantoms Kim, D. W., Hagiwara, Y., Hasebe, S., Dogan, N. O., Zhang, M., Asahi, T., Koshima, H., Sitti, M. Advanced Functional Materials, 33(47):2305916, 2023 () DOI BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Article Cholesteric Liquid Crystal Polymeric Coatings for Colorful Artificial Muscles and Motile Humidity Sensor Skin Integrated with Magnetic Composites Feng, W., Pal, A., Wang, T., Ren, Z., Yan, Y., Lu, Y., Yang, H., Sitti, M. Advanced Functional Materials, 33(23), 2023 (Published) DOI URL BibTeX

Embodied Vision Conference Paper Context-Conditional Navigation with a Learning-Based Terrain- and Robot-Aware Dynamics Model Guttikonda, S., Achterhold, J., Li, H., Boedecker, J., Stueckler, J. In Proceedings of the European Conference on Mobile Robots (ECMR), 2023 (Published) preprint code DOI URL BibTeX

Neural Capture and Synthesis Conference Paper DINER: Depth-aware Image-based Neural Radiance Fields Prinzler, M., Hilliges, O., Thies, J. In IEEE/CVF Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), CVPR, 2023, Accepted (Accepted) Video Code Arxiv URL BibTeX

Learning and Dynamical Systems Conference Paper Data-Efficient Online Learning of Ball Placement in Robot Table Tennis Tobuschat, P., Ma, H., Büchler, D., Schölkopf, B., Muehlebach, M. EEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2023 (Published) URL BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Article Deployable Soft Origami Modular Robotic Arm With Variable Stiffness Using Facet Buckling Park, M., Kim, W., Yu, S., Cho, J., Kang, W., Byun, J., Jeong, U., Cho, K. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 8(2):864-871, 2023 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Article Designing Covalent Organic Framework-based Light-driven Microswimmers towards Intraocular Theranostic Applications Sridhar, V., Yildiz, E., Rodrı́guez-Camargo, A., Lyu, X., Yao, L., Wrede, P., Aghakhani, A., Akolpoglu, M. B., Podjaski, F., Lotsch, B. V., et al. Advanced Materials, 35(25), 2023 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Modern Magnetic Systems Article Direct observation of Néel-type skyrmions and domain walls in a ferrimagnetic DyCo3 thin film Luo, C., Chen, K., Ukleev, V., Wintz, S., Weigand, M., Abrudan, R., Prokes, K., Radu, F. Communications Physics, 6:2018, Nature Publishing Group, London, 2023 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Modern Magnetic Systems Article Direct observation of propagating spin waves in the 2D van der Waals ferromagnet Fe5GeTe2 Schulz, F., Litzius, K., Powalla, L., Birch, M. T., Gallardo, R. A., Satheesh, S., Weigand, M., Scholz, T., Lotsch, B. V., Schütz, G., et al. Nano Letters, 23(22):10126-10131, American Chemical Society, Washington, DC, 2023 () DOI BibTeX

Autonomous Learning Article Discovering causal relations and equations from data Camps-Valls, G., Gerhardus, A., Ninad, U., Varando, G., Martius, G., Balaguer-Ballester, E., Vinuesa, R., Diaz, E., Zanna, L., Runge, J. Physics Reports, 1044:1-68, 2023 () DOI BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Patent Dry adhesives and methods for making dry adhesives M Sitti, M. M. B. A. 2023, US Patent 11,773,298, 2023 () BibTeX

Modern Magnetic Systems Article Ferromagnetic order controlled by the magnetic interface of LaNiO3/ La2/3Ca1/3MnO3 superlattices Soltan, S., Macke, S., Ilse, S. E., Pennycook, T., Zhang, Z. L., Christiani, G., Benckiser, E., Schütz, G., Goering, E. Scientific Reports, 13:3847, Nature Publishing Group, London, UK, 2023 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Article Hydrogel muscles powering reconfigurable micro-metastructures with wide-spectrum programmability Zhang, M., Pal, A., Zheng, Z., Gardi, G., Yildiz, E., Sitti, M. Nature Materials, 22(10):1243-1252, 2023 () DOI BibTeX

Modern Magnetic Systems Article Imaging of short-wavelength spin waves in a nanometer-thick YIG/Co bilayer Talapatra, A., Qin, H., Schulz, F., Yao, L., Flajsman, L., Weigand, M., Wintz, S., van Dijken, S. Applied Physics Letters, 122(20):202404, American Institute of Physics, Melville, NY, 2023 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Article Information theoretic measures of causal influences during transient neural events Shao, K., Logothetis, N. K., Besserve, M. Frontiers in Network Physiology, 3, 2023 (Published) DOI URL BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Article Integrated mechanologics for autonomous soft machines Pal, A., Byun, J., Ko, J., Sitti, M. Bulletin of the American Physical Society, 2023 () BibTeX

Autonomous Learning Article Interpretable Symbolic Regression for Data Science: Analysis of the 2022 Competition Franca, F. D., Virgolin, M., Kommenda, M., Majumder, M., Cranmer, M., Espada, G., Ingelse, L., Fonseca, A., Landajuela, M., Petersen, B., et al. arXiv, 2023 () URL BibTeX

Embodied Vision Conference Paper Learning-based Relational Object Matching Across Views Elich, C., Armeni, I., Oswald, M. R., Pollefeys, M., Stueckler, J. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2023 (Published) preprint code DOI URL BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Article Liquid Metal Microdroplet-Initiated Ultra-Fast Polymerization of a Stimuli-Responsive Hydrogel Composite Zhang, J., Liao, J., Liu, Z., Zhang, R., Sitti, M. Advanced Functional Materials, 2023 () DOI BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Article MRI-powered Magnetic Miniature Capsule Robot with HIFU-controlled On-demand Drug Delivery Tiryaki, M. E., Dogangun, F., Dayan, C. B., Wrede, P., Sitti, M. arXiv preprint arXiv:2301.07197, 2023 () DOI BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Article Machine Learning-Based Shear Optimal Adhesive Microstructures with Experimental Validation Dayan, C. B., Son, D., Aghakhani, A., Wu, Y., Demir, S. O., Sitti, M. Small, :2304437, 2023 () DOI BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Article Magnetic Putty as A Reconfigurable, Recyclable, And Accessible Soft Robotic Material Li, M., Pal, A., Byun, J., Gardi, G., Sitti, M. Advanced Materials, :2304825, 2023 () DOI BibTeX

Modern Magnetic Systems Article Magnetic field sensing elements made of quasi-trapezoidal magnetoplasmonic crystals based on thin permalloy films Murzin, D., Belyaev, V. K., Groß, F., Gräfe, J., Perov, N., Komanicky, V., Rodionova, V. Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, 588, NH, Elsevier, Amsterdam, 2023 () DOI BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Article Magnetic guidewire steering at ultrahigh magnetic fields Tiryaki, M. E., Elmacıoğlu, Y. G., Sitti, M. Science Advances, 9(17):eadg6438, 2023 () DOI BibTeX

Modern Magnetic Systems Article Magnetic phase transition in dimer-based metal-organic frameworks through structural modulation Kim, S., Schütz, G., Son, K., Oh, H. Sustainable Materials and Technologies, 38, Elsevier, Amsterdam, 2023 () DOI BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Patent Magnetic trap system and method of navigating a microscopic device Son, D., Ugurlu, M., Bluemer, P., Sitti, M. 2023, US Patent App. 17/871,598 () BibTeX

Empirical Inference Article Metrizing Weak Convergence with Maximum Mean Discrepancies Simon-Gabriel, C., Barp, A., Schölkopf, B., Mackey, L. Journal of Machine Learning Research, 24(184), 2023 (Published) arXiv URL BibTeX