Dr. Metin Sitti received the BSc and MSc degrees in electrical and electronics engineering from Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey, in 1992 and 1994, respectively, and the PhD degree in electrical engineering from the University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, in 1999. He was a research scientist at UC Berkeley during 1999-2002. He has been a professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA since 2002. He is currently a director at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Stuttgart. His research interests include small-scale physical intelligence, mobile microrobotics, bio-inspired materials and miniature robots, soft robotics, and micro-/nanomanipulation. He is an IEEE Fellow. He received the SPIE Nanoengineering Pioneer Award in 2011 and NSF CAREER Award in 2005. He received many best paper, video and poster awards in major robotics and adhesion conferences. He is the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Micro-Bio Robotics.
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Woodward, M. A., Sitti, M.
Universal Custom Complex Magnetic Spring Design Methodology
IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, 54(1):1-13, October 2018 (article)
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Yunusa, M., Amador, G. J., Drotlef, D., Sitti, M.
Wrinkling Instability and Adhesion of a Highly Bendable Gallium Oxide Nanofilm Encapsulating a Liquid-Gallium Droplet
Nano Letters, March 2018, PMID: 29510627 (article)
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Mehmet Turan, Y. A. E. P. O. H. A. M. F. Y. M. S.
Magnetic-Visual Sensor Fusion-based Dense 3D Reconstruction and Localization for Endoscopic Capsule Robots
ArXiv e-prints, March 2018 (article)
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Mehmet Turan, E. P. O. N. I. C. G. Y. A. M. F. Y. M. S.
Unsupervised Odometry and Depth Learning for Endoscopic Capsule Robots
ArXiv e-prints, March 2018 (article)
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Vannozzi, L., Yasa, I. C., Ceylan, H., Menciassi, A., Ricotti, L., Sitti, M.
Self‐Folded Hydrogel Tubes for Implantable Muscular Tissue Scaffolds
Macromolecular Bioscience, (0):1700377, March 2018 (article)
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Sheykhansari, S., Kozielski, K., Bill, J., Sitti, M., Gemmati, D., Zamboni, P., Singh, A. V.
Redox metals homeostasis in multiple sclerosis and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: a review
Cell Death \& Disease, 9(3):348, March 2018 (article)
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Singh, A. V., Jahnke, T., Kishore, V., Park, B., Batuwangala, M., Bill, J., Sitti, M.
Cancer cells biomineralize ionic gold into nanoparticles-microplates via secreting defense proteins with specific gold-binding peptides
Acta Biomaterialia, March 2018 (article)
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Guillermo J Amador, A. F. T. Z. R. Y. A. O. Y. M. S.
Thermocapillary-driven fluid flow within microchannels
ArXiv e-prints, Febuary 2018 (article)
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Turan, M., Pilavci, Y. Y., Ganiyusufoglu, I., Araujo, H., Konukoglu, E., Sitti, M.
Sparse-then-dense alignment-based 3D map reconstruction method for endoscopic capsule robots
Machine Vision and Applications, 29(2):345-359, Febuary 2018 (article)
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Khalil, I. S. M., Tabak, A. F., Hamed, Y., Tawakol, M., Klingner, A., Gohary, N. E., Mizaikoff, B., Sitti, M.
Independent Actuation of Two-Tailed Microrobots
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 3(3):1703-1710, Febuary 2018 (article)
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Amjadi, M., Sheykhansari, S., Nelson, B. J., Sitti, M.
Recent Advances in Wearable Transdermal Delivery Systems
Advanced Materials, 30(7):1704530, January 2018 (article)
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Turan, M., Almalioglu, Y., Araujo, H., Konukoglu, E., Sitti, M.
Deep EndoVO: A recurrent convolutional neural network (RCNN) based visual odometry approach for endoscopic capsule robots
Neurocomputing, 275, pages: 1861 - 1870, January 2018 (article)
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Hu, W., Lum, G. Z., Mastrangeli, M., Sitti, M.
Small-scale soft-bodied robot with multimodal locomotion
Nature, 554, pages: 81-85, Macmillan Publishers Limited, part of Springer Nature. All rights reserved., January 2018 (article)
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Sridhar, V., Park, B., Sitti, M.
Light‐Driven Janus Hollow Mesoporous TiO2–Au Microswimmers
Advanced Functional Materials, 0(0):1704902, January 2018 (article)
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Khalil, I. S. M., Mahdy, D., Sharkawy, A. E., Moustafa, R. R., Tabak, A. F., Mitwally, M. E., Hesham, S., Hamdi, N., Klingner, A., Mohamed, A., Sitti, M.
Mechanical Rubbing of Blood Clots Using Helical Robots Under Ultrasound Guidance
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 3(2):1112-1119, January 2018 (article)
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Khalil, I. S. M., Tabak, A. F., Hamed, Y., Mitwally, M. E., Tawakol, M., Klingner, A., Sitti, M.
Swimming Back and Forth Using Planar Flagellar Propulsion at Low Reynolds Numbers
Advanced Science, 5(2):1700461, December 2017 (article)
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Turan, M., Shabbir, J., Araujo, H., Konukoglu, E., Sitti, M.
A deep learning based fusion of RGB camera information and magnetic localization information for endoscopic capsule robots
International Journal of Intelligent Robotics and Applications, 1(4):442-450, December 2017 (article)
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Ricotti, L., Trimmer, B., Feinberg, A. W., Raman, R., Parker, K. K., Bashir, R., Sitti, M., Martel, S., Dario, P., Menciassi, A.
Biohybrid actuators for robotics: A review of devices actuated by living cells
Science Robotics, 2(12), Science Robotics, November 2017 (article)
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Park, B., Zhuang, J., Yasa, O., Sitti, M.
Multifunctional Bacteria-Driven Microswimmers for Targeted Active Drug Delivery
ACS Nano, 11(9):8910-8923, September 2017, PMID: 28873304 (article)
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Turan, M., Almalioglu, Y., Gilbert, H., Araujo, H., Cemgil, T., Sitti, M.
EndoSensorFusion: Particle Filtering-Based Multi-sensory Data Fusion with Switching State-Space Model for Endoscopic Capsule Robots
ArXiv e-prints, September 2017 (article)
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Turan, M., Almalioglu, Y., Gilbert, H., Eren Sari, A., Soylu, U., Sitti, M.
Endo-VMFuseNet: Deep Visual-Magnetic Sensor Fusion Approach for Uncalibrated, Unsynchronized and Asymmetric Endoscopic Capsule Robot Localization Data
ArXiv e-prints, September 2017 (article)
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Stanton, M. M., Park, B., Vilela, D., Bente, K., Faivre, D., Sitti, M., Sánchez, S.
Magnetotactic Bacteria Powered Biohybrids Target E. coli Biofilms
ACS Nano, 0(0):null, September 2017, PMID: 28933815 (article)
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Khalil, I. S. M., Tabak, A. F., Seif, M. A., Klingner, A., Adel, B., Sitti, M.
Swimming in low reynolds numbers using planar and helical flagellar waves
In International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) 2017, pages: 1907-1912, International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, September 2017 (inproceedings)
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Turan, M., Yigit Pilavci, Y., Ganiyusufoglu, I., Araujo, H., Konukoglu, E., Sitti, M.
Sparse-then-Dense Alignment based 3D Map Reconstruction Method for Endoscopic Capsule Robots
ArXiv e-prints, August 2017 (article)
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Lum, G. Z., Pham, M. T., Teo, T. J., Yang, G., Yeo, S. H., Sitti, M.
An XY ϴz flexure mechanism with optimal stiffness properties
In 2017 IEEE International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics (AIM), pages: 1103-1110, July 2017 (inproceedings)
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Khalil, I. S. M., Alfar, A., Tabak, A. F., Klingner, A., Stramigioli, S., Sitti, M.
Positioning of drug carriers using permanent magnet-based robotic system in three-dimensional space
In 2017 IEEE International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics (AIM), pages: 1117-1122, July 2017 (inproceedings)
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Kim, H., Liu, Y., Jeong, K., Sitti, M., Seo, T.
Dynamic analysis on hexapedal water-running robot with compliant joints
In 2017 14th International Conference on Ubiquitous Robots and Ambient Intelligence (URAI), pages: 250-251, June 2017 (inproceedings)
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Amador, G., Endlein, T., Sitti, M.
Soiled adhesive pads shear clean by slipping: a robust self-cleaning mechanism in climbing beetles
Journal of The Royal Society Interface, 14(131):20170134, The Royal Society, June 2017 (article)
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Ipparthi, D., Winslow, A., Sitti, M., Dorigo, M., Mastrangeli, M.
Yield prediction in parallel homogeneous assembly
Soft Matter, 13, pages: 7595-7608, The Royal Society of Chemistry, June 2017 (article)
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Kim, H., Sitti, M., Seo, T.
Tail-Assisted Mobility and Stability Enhancement in Yaw/Pitch Motions of a Water-Running Robot
IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, 22, IEEE, June 2017 (article)
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Spröwitz, A., Göttler, C., Sinha, A., Caer, C., Öztekin, M. U., Petersen, K., Sitti, M.
Scalable Pneumatic and Tendon Driven Robotic Joint Inspired by Jumping Spiders
In Proceedings 2017 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), pages: 64-70, IEEE, Piscataway, NJ, USA, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), May 2017 (inproceedings)
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Erin, O., Giltinan, J., Tsai, L., Sitti, M.
Design and actuation of a magnetic millirobot under a constant unidirectional magnetic field
In Proceedings 2017 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), pages: 3404-3410, IEEE, Piscataway, NJ, USA, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), May 2017 (inproceedings)
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Son, D., Dogan, M. D., Sitti, M.
Magnetically actuated soft capsule endoscope for fine-needle aspiration biopsy
In Proceedings 2017 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), pages: 1132-1139, IEEE, Piscataway, NJ, USA, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), May 2017 (inproceedings)
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Zhuang, J., Park, B., Sitti, M.
Propulsion and Chemotaxis in Bacteria-Driven Microswimmers
Advanced Science, May 2017 (article)
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Wang, W., Giltinan, J., Zakharchenko, S., Sitti, M.
Dynamic and programmable self-assembly of micro-rafts at the air-water interface
Science Advances, 3(5):e1602522, American Association for the Advancement of Science, May 2017 (article)
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Drotlef, D., Amjadi, M., Yunusa, M., Sitti, M.
Bioinspired Composite Microfibers for Skin Adhesion and Signal Amplification of Wearable Sensors
Advanced Materials, May 2017, Back Cover (article)
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Mostaghaci, B., Yasa, O., Zhuang, J., Sitti, M.
Bioadhesive Bacterial Microswimmers for Targeted Drug Delivery in the Urinary and Gastrointestinal Tracts
Advanced Science, May 2017 (article)
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Turan, M., Abdullah, A., Jamiruddin, R., Araujo, H., Konukoglu, E., Sitti, M.
Six Degree-of-Freedom Localization of Endoscopic Capsule Robots using Recurrent Neural Networks embedded into a Convolutional Neural Network
arXiv preprint arXiv:1705.06196, May 2017 (article)
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Song, S., Drotlef, D., Majidi, C., Sitti, M.
Controllable load sharing for soft adhesive interfaces on three-dimensional surfaces
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, pages: 201620344, National Acad Sciences, May 2017 (article)
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Turan, M., Almalioglu, Y., Araujo, H., Konukoglu, E., Sitti, M.
A Non-Rigid Map Fusion-Based RGB-Depth SLAM Method for Endoscopic Capsule Robots
arXiv preprint arXiv:1705.05444, May 2017 (article)
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Singh, A. V., Baylan, S., Park, B., Richter, G., Sitti, M.
Hydrophobic pinning with copper nanowhiskers leads to bactericidal properties
PloS one, 12(4):e0175428, Public Library of Science, April 2017 (article)
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Stanton, M. M., Park, B., Miguel-López, A., Ma, X., Sitti, M., Sánchez, S.
Biohybrid microtube swimmers driven by single captured bacteria
small, 13(19), March 2017 (article)
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Endlein, T., Ji, A., Yuan, S., Hill, I., Wang, H., Barnes, W. J. P., Dai, Z., Sitti, M.
The use of clamping grips and friction pads by tree frogs for climbing curved surfaces
In Proc. R. Soc. B, 284(1849):20162867, Febuary 2017 (inproceedings)
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Khalil, I. S., Tabak, A. F., Sadek, K., Mahdy, D., Hamdi, N., Sitti, M.
Rubbing Against Blood Clots Using Helical Robots: Modeling and In Vitro Experimental Validation
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2(2):927-934, IEEE, January 2017 (article)
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Sitti, M., Glass, P. S., Aksak, B.
Method of molding simple or complex micro and/or nanopatterned features on both planar or non-planar molded objects and surfaces and the molded objects produced using same
2017, US Patent 9,566,722 (patent)
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Kozielski, K., Sitti, M.
Gene delivery particle engineering strategies for shape-dependent targeting of cells and tissues.
Current gene therapy, 17, 2017 (article)
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Koorehdavoudi, H., Bogdan, P., Wei, G., Marculescu, R., Zhuang, J., Carlsen, R. W., Sitti, M.
Multi-fractal characterization of bacterial swimming dynamics: a case study on real and simulated Serratia marcescens
Proceedings of the Royal Society of London A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 473(2203), The Royal Society, 2017 (article)
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Singh, A. V., Hosseinidoust, Z., Park, B., Yasa, O., Sitti, M.
Microemulsion-Based Soft Bacteria-Driven Microswimmers for Active Cargo Delivery
ACS Nano, 0(0):null, 2017, PMID: 28858477 (article)
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Amjadia, M., Mostaghacia, B., Sittia, M.
Recent Advances in Skin Penetration Enhancers for Transdermal Gene and Drug Delivery
Current Gene Therapy, 17, pages: 000-000, 2017 (article)
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Turan, M., Pilavci, Y. Y., Jamiruddin, R., Araujo, H., Konukoglu, E., Sitti, M.
A fully dense and globally consistent 3D map reconstruction approach for GI tract to enhance therapeutic relevance of the endoscopic capsule robot
arXiv preprint arXiv:1705.06524, 2017 (article)