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President of Koç University @kocunivoip

Istanbul, Turkey

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I am honoured and humbled to be the new President of Koç University. My missions are now achieving world-leading academic and research excellence, training the future leaders and innovators, and building a strong, inclusive and diverse university community at Koç University.

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I am happy to announce that I have just received the Breakthrough of the Year Award in Engineering and Technology Category at Falling Walls in Berlin. Our research breaks the wall to wireless tiny medical robots inside our body. Congrats/thanks to my team!

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I am honored to be elected as a member of the National Academy of Engineering. Such honor has been enabled by my amazing current and past group members, family, collaborators, and colleagues; big thanks to all of them! @kocuniversity @MPI_IS @CMU_Mech

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I am looking for a PhD student or a post-doc to work on 'wireless' deep brain stimulation using micro-robots. The person needs to have some level of understanding of neural stimulation, in-vitro cell testing and neural cell culturing. Please let me know if you are interested.

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Our work on "wirelessly inflatable" soft millirobots towards minimally invasive medical operations inside our body, such as embolization, is published in Advanced Materials. Congrats to Mingtong, Yichao and other co-authors! @MPI_IS

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I am looking for a post-doc (expert on tissue engineering, mechanotransduction, or biomechanics) to study tissue (ECM) biomechanics using controlled mechanical stimuli via soft robotic surfaces. Please distribute around.

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Post-doctoral researcher - Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg (DE)

The Physical Intelligence Department (http://pi.is.mpg.de) at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Stuttgart, Germany is searchi...

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I am honoured to be one of the ten Winners of the Science Breakthroughs of the Year at the @Falling_Walls in the Engineering & Technology Category. My video will be shown on Nov. 8th at .

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It was great to get together with my group members yesterday in my 50th birthday! Look forward to producing more high-impact science and having more fun socially with such a great inter-disciplinary and inter-cultural team!

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Congrats to my group members Yunus Alapan and Alp Karacakol that our work on “re”programmable soft machines is now published in Science Advances!

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It was great to giving a seminar on our wireless miniature medical robots at MIT and meeting my great colleagues @ProfZhaoMIT and Pierre Dupont!

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Happy to see my Mobile Microrobotics book on the shelves in the MIT Press bookstore.

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I am very happy to be with some of my group members and alumni in the Gordon Research Conference on Robotics in Ventura, CA (I was the co-Vice Chair). The conference had amazing scientific talks and discussions. Look forward to co-chairing GRC Robotics in 2024!

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Progress in Biomedical Engineering aims to explore emerging trends and help researchers collaborate and shape future research in this interdisciplinary field

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New journal highlights emerging trends in biomedical engineering – Physics World

Progress in Biomedical Engineering aims to explore emerging trends and help researchers collaborate and shape future research in this interdisciplinary field

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Watch my finalist video in the Science in the Engineering and Technology Category at the @Falling_Walls #WorldScienceSummit 2020: Register to join the virtual showcase of the Science Breakthroughs of the Year from Nov 1-10 at: .

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Our work on wireless neural stimulation of deep brain to treat the Parkinson’s disease minimally invasively using magnetopiezoelectric nanoparticles is now published in Science Advances!

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ETH Zurich President, as the jury chair, explains the award decision of my breakthrough of the year award. I am humbled with his statement; congrats to my team again.

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Congratulations to my group members Xinjian, Xiaoguang and Alp that our work on ferrofluid droplet-based soft functional robots towards wireless medical robot applications is now published in PNAS! @MPI_IS , @xdcmu , @AlpCanKaracakol

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Reconfigurable multifunctional ferrofluid droplet robots | Proceedings of the National Academy of...

Magnetically actuated miniature soft robots are capable of programmable deformations for multimodal locomotion and manipulation functions, potentia...

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Congrats to our senior scientist Hakan Ceylan @drhakanceylan to receive the Günter Petzow award in our institute’s @MPI_IS summer colloquium on last Friday due to his outstanding research contributions in small-scale functional robotic micro/nanomaterials and 3D micro-printing!

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Physical intelligence has and will become a new paradigm to create intelligence not only in robot brains, but also in robot bodies. So, intelligence research is not all about computational intelligence (AI) and brain research only.

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Congrats to Varun that our close collaboration with @LotschGroup at @mpifkf is now published in PNAS! We showed the first solar-battery microswimming without constant light source! @MPI_IS @metin_sitti

Carbon nitride-based light-driven microswimmers with intrinsic photocharging ability | Proceedings...

Controlling autonomous propulsion of microswimmers is essential for targeted drug delivery and applications of micro/nanomachines in environmental ...

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Tried to define ‘physical intelligence’ as a new paradigm in this brief talk in the exciting Embodied Intelligence Workshop this week.

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Congratulations to my team that our PNAS paper is selected as the finalist (second place) of the Cozzarelli Prize 2020 in Eng. & App. Sci. category from over 3600 PNAS papers. @HamedShahsavan @amirreza_agha @APriimagi @DavidsonZoey

PNAS announces six 2020 Cozzarelli Prize recipients

The Editorial Board of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) has selected six papers published by PNAS in 2020 to receive the Cozzarelli Prize, an award that recognizes outstan...

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Congrats to Abdon @abdon_pf that our work on self-healing biopolymers for soft actuators and robots is just published in Nature Materials: This work was a close collaboration with Melik Demirel @melikcdemirel at PennState. @MPI_IS

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Congratulations to Abdon ( @abdon_pf ), Pol ( @PC_PCX ), and @bozuyuku , @OncayYasa for their demonstration of the first Zwitterionic Microrobots, which can hide from the immune system, is now published in Advanced Materials! @IQSbarcelona , @MPI_IS

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Congrats to Zemin, Meng and our other team members for their exciting new fabrication technique, which enables creation of new 3D magnetic functional microdevices for the first time. ⁦ @MPI_IS ⁩ ⁦ @MaximengLi ⁩

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Creating three-dimensional magnetic functional microdevices via molding-integrated direct laser...

Nature Communications - Magnetic, wireless miniature devices are promising for healthcare, information technology, and many other field but lack advanced fabrication methods for micrometer length...

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Congrats to Mingchao and our other team members for our new paper in @NatureMaterials about transparent hydrogel muscle actuators that can power thermally controllable & reconfigurable smart optical and other meta-microstructures. @MPI_IS @MingchaoZhang

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Congrats to Gaurav and Steven that our collaborative work (with my previous group members Kirstin at @Cornell and Wendong @sjtu1896 ) on reconfigurable collective microrobots is now published in @NatureComms ! @MPI_IS

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Microrobot collectives with reconfigurable morphologies, behaviors, and functions

Nature Communications - Reconfigurability at the micro-scale is rare. Here, authors present a versatile magnetic microrobot collective that reconfigures on-demand among miscellaneous behaviors that...

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Congratulations to Tianlu, Ziyu and Wenqi that our research on larval fish-inspired wireless soft milliswimmers is now published in Science Advances.

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Congrats to @MaximengLi , Aniket, @abdon_pf and @amirintown that our review paper on soft actuators for real-world applications is now published in Nature Reviews Materials! @NatRevMater ⁦ @MPI_IS ⁩

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Soft actuators for real-world applications

Nature Reviews Materials - Soft actuators are flexible and compliant and thus perfectly suited to interact with the human body. This Review discusses tethered, untethered and biohybrid soft...

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Congratulations to Yingdan, Xiaoguang and other team members that our work on a shape-programmable soft millirobot that can climb on 3D surfaces using its sticky feet inside our body is just published in Science Advances. @MPI_IS @xdcmu @Yingdan_Wu @CXLYGG

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Wireless soft millirobots for climbing three-dimensional surfaces in confined spaces

Wireless millimeter-scale soft climbing robots can traverse complex 3D tissue surfaces in enclosed and confined spaces.

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Congrats to Mingtong, Yichao, Ren Hao and Wenqi that we have integrated high force output artificial muscles to our soft robots. Thus, now, our soft medical robots can conduct wireless surgical operations (e.g., suture, cut, drill, clamp) in the body.

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Miniature coiled artificial muscle for wireless soft medical devices

Miniature wireless magnetic coiled muscle design enables the large force output required by biomedical applications.

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Congrats to Tianlu and other team members that our work on wireless shape-adaptable stent robots that can navigate in tiny vessels in brain and treat stroke, aneurysm and other diseases minimally invasively is just published in @NatureComms ! @MPI_IS

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Congrats to Amir @amirreza_agha and @abdon_pf , @bozuyuku , @paul_wrede that we have shown effective propulsion of acoustic cell-sized robots in blood and mucus type of complex biofluids, which has been very challenging to move inside by microrobots.

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High shear rate propulsion of acoustic microrobots in complex biological fluids

A high shear rate, acoustically powered microrobotic system is presented for efficient propulsion in complex biological fluids.

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Congrats to Xiaoguang, Wenqi and Ziyu that our research on bioinspired cilia motion with metachronal coordination for efficient fluidic pumping and object manipulation is now published in Science Advances! @metin_sitti @xdcmu @wqhumems

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Congrats to Ziyu and other team members that our work on electrically actuated artificial cilia arrays on soft robot bodies that can manipulate the fluid around the body actively is published in Science Advances! @MPI_IS @ScienceAdvances

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Sting in the Jazz Open in Stuttgart after we bought its ticket 3 years ago

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Congrats to Ugur*, Yunus*, Amir and Muhammad that our work on shape anisotropy-governed locomotion of surface microrollers on vessel microtopographies is now published in PNAS!

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Shape anisotropy-governed locomotion of surface microrollers on vessel-like microtopographies...

Surface microrollers are promising microrobotic systems for controlled navigation in the circulatory system thanks to their fast speeds and decreas...

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Our group has created micronscale kirigami structures that can be reconfigured by a liquid crystal elastomer muscle actuator. @MPI_IS @MingchaoZhang1 @HamedShahsavan

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Liquid‐Crystal‐Elastomer‐Actuated Reconfigurable Microscale Kirigami Metastructures

Advanced Materials, one of the world's most prestigious journals, is the home of choice for best-in-class materials science for more than 30 years.

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Congrats to Mingtong that our work on light-driven hydrogel actuators with high speed propulsion in air is published now in Nature Communications and is selected as the Editors' Highlight. @MPI_IS

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In-air fast response and high speed jumping and rolling of a light-driven hydrogel actuator

Nature Communications - Actuation of hydrogel actuators relies on slow swelling and de-swelling process which hampers its application in many fields. Here the authors report a light-powered in-air...

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Our magnetic trap-based millirobot navigating inside soft tissues, such as brain, is featured in Nature Electronics.

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Greetings from our Physical Intelligence Team for the New Year!

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I will be giving a webinar on bio-inspired robotic materials and locomotion systems today at 10 am EST (4 pm German time): Here is the webinar link in case you are interested in joining it:

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Congrats to Donghoon and Musab that our work on controlled navigation of wireless millirobots inside brain type of soft tissues is just published in Science Advances @MPI_IS .

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Permanent magnet array–driven navigation of wireless millirobots inside soft tissues

A wireless magnetic millirobot navigates inside an ex vivo porcine brain propelled by a permanent magnetic array–based force trap.

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Honoured to be named a Highly Cited Researcher 2021, thanks to my great Physical Intelligence Department team, Max Planck research environment, collaborators, funders, and family! The full list is at: #HighlyCited2021 @MPI_IS

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Here is the link with for a free PDF download of my perspective article on Physical Intelligence.

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Prof. Dr. Metin Sitti 'Bilimde Çığır Açtı’

Berlin Duvarı’nın yıkılmasından ilham alarak, bilim ve toplumda yıkılacak sonraki duvarları bulmayı amaçlayan, 'Duvarları Yıkmak: Dünya Bilim Zirvesi’nin...

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Congrats to Yingbo, Tianlu and other team members that we have shown a new soft magnetic milli-tool that can help visualise the fine morphological details of partial vascular blockages, such as stenoses, even in the narrowest and most curved vessels:

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Magnetically assisted soft milli-tools for occluded lumen morphology detection

Active and passive deformations of miniature soft robotic tools assist in detecting complex occlusions in lumens.

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Congrats to Abdon Pena-Francesch @abdon_pf from my group that he will be joining University of Michigan @UMich , USA as a tenure-track assistant professor in the Materials Science and Engineering Department from January 2021!

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Congrats to Wendong, Gaurav and others in our team showing how self-organizing micro-robotic collectives can create order and information in their patterns. ⁦ @MPI_IS ⁩ ⁦ @ScienceAdvances ⁩

Order and information in the patterns of spinning magnetic micro-disks at the air-water interface

A local measure based on the Shannon entropy establishes connections among information, structures, and interactions.

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Our team has recently characterised the fluid mechanics and rheology of the jumping spider body fluid, which is now published in Soft Matter.

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Fluid mechanics and rheology of the jumping spider body fluid

Spiders use their inner body fluid (“blood” or hemolymph) to drive hydraulic extension of their legs. In hydraulic systems, performance is highly dependent on the working fluid, which needs to be...

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#Asa ğıBakmayacağız

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Congratulations to Yubing, Jiachen, Wenqi and Turab that our work on shape-programmable liquid crystal elastomer structures with arbitrary 3D director ﬁelds and geometries is now published in Nature Communications.

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Los microrrobots de uso médico, el avance tecnológico del año a través de @el_pais @MPI_IS @Falling_Walls @metin_sitti

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Los microrrobots de uso médico, el avance tecnológico del año

La conferencia Falling Walls reconoce el trabajo de Metin Sitti y su equipo como el mayor descubrimiento de 2020

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This Jellyfish Robot Is Much More Than Just a Good Swimmer

At less than a quarter inch across, the magnetically activated robot can manipulate water flow to manipulate objects.

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Congrats to Hamed Shahsavan @HamedShahsavan from my group that he will be joining #UWaterloo , Canada as a tenure-track assistant professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering in August!

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We recently had the first retreat of our new collaborative center on ‘material science of extracellular matrix’ with Queensland Uni. of Technology in Australia in Heron island in Grand Barrier Reef. Amazing bird and sea life diversity. Enjoyed also having Tsukuba diving there.

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Congratulations to Varun and our collaborators in @LotschGroup for the breakthrough work on light-driven micro-robots that can swim fast in highly ionic biological and other fluids under visible light and deliver drugs for the first time. @MPI_IS @mpifkf

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A modular building platform for the most ingenious of robots via @YouTube

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A modular building platform for the most ingenious of robots

A team of scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems has developed a system with which they can fabricate miniature robots building blo...

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It was great to celebrate our institute’s 10th anniversary with the State Minister Kretschmann and our Max Planck Society President Stratmann in the Neues Schloss in Stuttgart! Time to conducting even more amazing science on intelligent systems.

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Congrats to our senior scientist Wendong Wang to join University of Michigan - Shanghai Jiao Tong University Joint Institute in Shanghai, China as a tenure-track assistant professor this year!

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Türk icadı mini denizanası robot

Aynı bir denizanası gibi hareket eden mini robo...

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Congrats to our team for the new paper in Science Advances in collaboration with Achim Menges’s team in University of Stuttgart: Additive manufacturing of cellulose-based materials with continuous, multidirectional stiffness gradients

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A tiny jellyfish robot could swim inside the bladder to deliver drugs

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A tiny jellyfish robot could swim inside the bladder to deliver drugs

A tiny jellyfish-like robot could be used to deliver drugs in the body. It is only 3 millimeters across and is controlled by magnetic fields

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Compromised Design via @BPoD_mrc

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One of these ten winners will receive the The Breakthrough of the Year Award in the @Falling_Walls Grand Finale on Nov. 9th at 1 pm at: .

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Koç Holding and İnventram invested in our lab's spun out gecko adhesive technology. #Cumhuriyet #cumhuriyetgzt @cumhuriyetgzt @metin_sitti

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Koç Holding ve İnventram'dan iki yeni yatırım

İnventram, Koç Holding ile birlikte 2 yeni yüksek teknoloji şirketine yatırım yaptı.

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@ProfZhaoMIT Thanks Xuanhe! Congrats for your newborn daughter again!

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Koç Holding kertenkele teknolojisine yatırım yaptı! Haberler via @haberturk @metin_sitti

Koç Holding kertenkele teknolojisine yatırım yaptı! Haberler - Teknoloji Haberleri

İnventram, Koç Holding ve İnventram, iki yeni yüksek teknoloji şirketine yatırım yaptı. İnventram ve Koç Holding, perakende sektörü için görüntü tanıma sistemleri geliştiren Türkiye'den Vispera ve...

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@pakpongc @kocuniversity Your robots were amazing; congrats to you and your team!

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@ProfZhaoMIT Thanks Xuanhe! Pushing the limits of soft robot fabrication complexity needed assembly (other robots).. cheers

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@Cyber_Valley @wqhumems @MPI_IS Congrats to Wenqi!

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@abdon_pf @PC_PCX Congratulations Dr. Pol!

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@SamuelNanobots @MPI_IS Thanks Samuel! Look forward to pushing this field to its limits altogether!

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@__scientist__ Tesekkurler!

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@ProfZhaoMIT @nature Congrats!!

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@yaksi_emre @MPI_IS Thanks!

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@abdon_pf @CerenGrp @SciRobotics Thanks; finally!

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@fatihhincii tesekkurler!

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@SKizilel Tesekkurler!

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@abdon_pf @AFOSR @UMengineering @ummse @UMRobotics @UMichChE Congrats!!

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