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Physical Intelligence News 25-06-2015 Bacteria navigate microparticle swarms to target Latest publication in Scientific Reports In the 1966 movie Fantastic Voyage, a submarine complete with crew is shrunk in size so that it can navigate through the human body, enabling the crew to perform surgery in the brain. This scenario remains in the realm of science fiction, and transporting a surgical team to a disease site will certainly remain fiction. Nevertheless, tiny submarines that could navigate through the body could be of great benefit: they could deliver drugs precisely to a target location, without causing side effects and stressing the whole organism. Metin Sitti Jiang Zhuang

Physical Intelligence Award 15-06-2015 Wenqi Hu and Wendong Wang received the Humboldt postdoctoral fellowship.

Physical Intelligence News 01-06-2015 Feature Robotics Medical spectrum.ieee.org Engineers explore ways to take robotics to the limits of size and function. In the 1966 film Fantastic Voyage, scientists at a U.S. laboratory shrink a submarine called Proteus and its human crew to microscopic size and then inject the vessel into an ailing scientist. Metin Sitti

Physical Intelligence News 12-03-2015 Einmal um die Welt für die Robotik Der Ingenieur Metin Sitti ist herumgekommen: Istanbul, Tokio, Berkeley, Pittsburgh – und nun Stuttgart: am Max-Planck-Institut für Intelligente Systeme baut er gerade ein Labor auf und lobt die Chancen für seine Forschung mit kleinen Robotern. Metin Sitti

Physical Intelligence News 15-02-2015 Nanoroboter bekämpfen Krebs profil.at Our lab alumnus Assist. Prof. Bahareh Behkam at Virginia Tech in USA received the National Science Foundation CAREER award from the Biomedical Engineering program in 2015. Her award will focus on investigating immune cell-bacteria interactions in the cancer tumor microenvironment. Metin Sitti

Physical Intelligence News 04-02-2015 Our lab's work journals.sagepub.com Our lab's work: "Six-Degrees-of-Freedom Remote Actuation of Magnetic Microrobots" has been nominated for the best paper award at the Robotics Science and Systems 2014 conference. Metin Sitti Joshua Giltinan Guo Zhan Lum Zhou Ye

Physical Intelligence Award 02-02-2015 Alumnus award: Our lab alumnus Assist. Prof. Bahareh Behkam at Virginia Tech in USA received the National Science Foundation CAREER award from the Biomedical Engineering program in 2015. Her award will focus on investigating immune cell-bacteria interactions in the cancer tumor microenvironment.

Physical Intelligence Award 15-09-2014 Taewon Seo and Metin Sitti received the IEEE/ASME Best Mechatronics Paper Award due to the paper on tank-like modular climbing robots using elastomeric dry adhesives.

Physical Intelligence Award 06-08-2014 Uyiosa Abosomwan and Metin Sitti received the Best Poster Award in the Adhesion Conference due to the research poster on contact self-cleaning mechanics of gecko-inspired adhesives.

Physical Intelligence News 21-05-2014 Metin Sitti becomes new director at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems The Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems has appointed Metin Sitti as a new director at the institute’s Stuttgart location. There, Sitti will head the Physical Intelligence Department. One of the main goals of his research will be to obtain a new understanding of physically intelligent systems made of smart and soft materials. Metin Sitti

Physical Intelligence News 05-05-2014 Congratulations To our alumni Yigit Menguc, Onur Ozcan, and Rika Wright Carlsen on their new faculty positions. Yigit has accepted a position at Oregon State University, Onur has accepted a position at Bilkent University, and Rika has accepted a position at Robert Morris University. Metin Sitti

Physical Intelligence News 07-04-2014 Our lab's work Our lab's work on self-cleaning gecko adhesive is featured as a picture of the week by the science news website Science Friday. Metin Sitti

Physical Intelligence News 03-04-2014 Congratulations Congratulations to NanoRobotics Lab alumnus TaeWon Seo and Professor Sitti on winning the 2013 IEEE/ASME Best Mechatronics Paper Award. Metin Sitti

Physical Intelligence News 12-03-2014 Newsweek Professor Sitti discusses novel gecko-inspired tape with Newsweek. Metin Sitti

Physical Intelligence Award 26-02-2014 Metin Sitti became an IEEE Fellow due to contributions to micro- and nano-scale robotic systems.

Physical Intelligence News 10-02-2014 Congratulations Our lab's collaborative work is covered as featured research by Science Daily. Metin Sitti

Physical Intelligence Award 05-02-2014 Eric Diller, Zhou Ye, Guo Zhan Lum, Joshua Giltinan and Metin Sitti were selected as the Best Paper Award Finalist in the Robotics Science and Systems Conference due to the paper on novel six degrees-of-freedom actuation method for mobile magnetic microrobots.

Physical Intelligence Award 05-02-2014 Matthew Woodward and Metin Sitti: Top 5 Most Read Papers of 2014 of the International Journal of Robotics Research journal for the paper entitled, "MultiMo-Bat: Biologically Inspired Integrated Jumping-Gliding Robot".

Physical Intelligence News 01-02-2014 Fellow Professor Sitti is named as IEEE Fellow. Metin Sitti

Physical Intelligence News 28-01-2014 Collaborative work Our lab's collaborative work on "Untethered microrobotic coding of three-dimensional material composition" with Harvard Medical School (Prof. Utkan Demirci) is published in Nature Communications. Metin Sitti

Physical Intelligence News 15-01-2014 Good luck Our lab's recent graduate Dr. Eric Diller will be an assistant professor at the University of Toronto (Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Department) from January 2014. Metin Sitti

Physical Intelligence News 02-11-2013 National Science Foundation Our lab alumnus Prof. Seok Kim at UIUC will receive the prestigious National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award for his research and educational activities on microassembly using transfer printing. Metin Sitti