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Physical Intelligence Award 01-05-2024 Ali Amini Harandi received the NSREC postdoctoral fellowship from Canada. Ali Amini Harandi

Physical Intelligence Award 01-04-2024 CELLnROLL team has been awarded the CyberValley Innovation Fellowship. Erdost Yildiz Alp Can Karacakol Ugur Bozuyuk

Physical Intelligence Award 01-04-2024 Chong Hong, Yingdan Wu and Metin Sitti received the Best Workshop Poster Award in the IEEE Robotics and Automation Conference Chong Hong Yingdan Wu Metin Sitti

Physical Intelligence Award 01-04-2024 Xianqiang Bao and Metin Sitti received the Best Paper Award in Automation in the IEEE Int. Conference on Mechatronics and Automation Xianqiang Bao Metin Sitti

Physical Intelligence Award 06-02-2024 Metin Sitti is elected as a member of National Academy of Engineering Metin Sitti

Physical Intelligence Award 01-01-2024 Metin Sitti was elected as the Highly Cited Researcher and received the Material Science Leader Award by Clarivate. Metin Sitti

Physical Intelligence Award 01-12-2023 Ugur Bozüyük receives the ETH Silver Medal for his outstanding doctoral thesis "Magnetic Surface Microrollers for Endovascular Navigation". Ugur Bozuyuk

Physical Intelligence Award 14-07-2023 Birgül Akolpoglu wins the 2023 MPI-IS Outstanding Female Doctoral Student Prize. Nihal Olcay Dogan receives an Honorable Mention for this prize. Birgül Akolpoglu Nihal Olcay Dogan

Physical Intelligence Award 06-07-2023 MAXMINDS project has been awarded the MPG Diversity Excellence Fund Erdost Yildiz

Physical Intelligence Award 30-06-2023 Martin Phelan was invited to the launch of the European Cancer Community Foundation Martin Phelan

Physical Intelligence Award 17-06-2023 Martin Phelan: 2nd place in the Fallings Walls Lab competition for Baden-Württemberg for the pitch “Breaking the Wall of Radiation-free Surgery” Martin Phelan

Physical Intelligence Award 20-03-2023 Wenbin Kang received the Marie-Curie postdoctoral fellowship. Wenbin Kang

Physical Intelligence Award 30-01-2023 Ziyu Ren was honored with the ETH Silver Medal for his outstanding doctoral thesis. Ziyu Ren

Physical Intelligence Award 01-12-2022 Alp Can Karacakol received the Max Planck ETH Center for Learning Systems Postdoctoral Fellowship. Alp Can Karacakol

Physical Intelligence Award 01-10-2022 Dong Wook Kim received the Humboldt postdoctoral fellowship from Germany. Dong Wook Kim

Physical Intelligence Award 01-10-2022 Erdost Yildiz has been awarded the EU Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellowship Erdost Yildiz

Physical Intelligence Award 01-10-2022 Mengmeng Sun received the Humboldt postdoctoral fellowship from Germany. Mengmeng Sun

Physical Intelligence Award 01-10-2022 Metin Sitti received the new grant from DFG, Soft Material Robotic Systems (SPP2100) Phase II Project, "Medizinische Miniaturroboter mit weichem Körper in unserem Körper," GZ: SI 2197/5-1. Metin Sitti

Physical Intelligence Award 01-10-2022 Xianqiang Bao received the Humboldt postdoctoral fellowship from Germany. Xianqiang Bao

Physical Intelligence Award 07-07-2022 Tianlu Wang is awarded Young Researcher Award at the 11th European Solid Mechanics Conference Tianlu Wang

Physical Intelligence Award 01-05-2022 Tianlu Wang, Hyeong-Joon Joo, Wenqi Hu, Christoph Keplinger, and Metin Sitti received the Best Poster Award in the Gordon Research Conference on Robotics Tianlu Wang Hyeong-Joon Joo Wenqi Hu Christoph M. Keplinger Metin Sitti

Physical Intelligence Award 01-01-2022 Metin Sitti was elected as the Highly Cited Researcher by Clarivate. Metin Sitti

Physical Intelligence Award 17-10-2021 15 journal articles of our group were selected as the Highly Cited Papers in Web of Science.

Physical Intelligence Award 01-01-2021 Donghoon Son and Sungwoo Chun joined Pusan National University and Korea University, respectively as an assistant professor in S. Korea.

Physical Intelligence Award 01-01-2021 Hakan Ceylan selected as a Young Academy Member by Turkish Science Academy, 2021.

Physical Intelligence Award 01-01-2021 Jaekang Kim, Aniket Pal, Zhen Yin, Wei Feng, Yingdan Wu, and Mingchao Zhang received the Humboldt postdoctoral fellowship.

Physical Intelligence Award 01-01-2021 Jie Han, Chong Hong, Yingbo Yan, Fan Wang, Shuqi Wang, and Xianglong Lyu received the CSC PhD fellowship.

Physical Intelligence Award 01-01-2021 Saadet Fatma Baltaci-Demir and Siyeon Jang received the DAAD PhD fellowship.

Physical Intelligence Award 01-01-2021 Savas Tasoglu received the Humboldt fellowship for experienced researchers.

Physical Intelligence Award 01-01-2021 Utku Culha and Kristen Kozielski joined Technical University of Munich as a chief scientist and assistant professor, respectively.

Physical Intelligence Award 01-01-2021 Wei Feng received the Best Paper Award in Bonic Robotics at the International Workshop on Bionic Engineering.

Physical Intelligence Award 01-01-2021 Yichao Tang received the 1000 Young Talents Award in China and joined Tongji University as a full professor.

Physical Intelligence Award 01-01-2021 Hakan Ceylan and Xiaoguang Dong will join Mayo Clinic and Vanderbildt University, respectively, and Abdon Pena-Francesch joined University of Michigan, Ann Harbour as an assistant professor in USA.

Physical Intelligence Award 01-01-2021 Jiachen Zhang, Yubing Guo, and Xinghao Hu joined the City University of Hong Kong, Beijing Institute of Technology, and Northwestern Polytechnical University, respectively as an assistant professor in China.

Physical Intelligence Award 02-11-2020 Metin Sitti received the "Breakthrough of the Year" Award

Physical Intelligence Award 02-10-2020 Junghwan Byun: received a National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) Fellowship.

Physical Intelligence Award 01-09-2020 Meng Li, Sungwoo Chun and Shuaizhong Zhang received the Humboldt Postdoctoral Research Fellowship.

Physical Intelligence Award 28-04-2020 Hakan Ceylan received the Günter Petzow Prize.

Physical Intelligence Award 01-01-2020 Hakan Ceylan named as a College for Life Science Fellow by Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin.

Physical Intelligence Award 01-01-2020 Hamed Shahsavan joined University of Waterloo as an assistant professor in Canada.

Physical Intelligence Award 01-01-2020 Immihan Ceren Yasa named as an Innovation Fellow at Novartis, Basel, Switzerland.

Physical Intelligence Award 01-01-2020 Vimal Kishore joined Banaras Hindu University as an assistant professor in India.

Physical Intelligence Award 01-01-2020 Wendong Wang joined University of Michigan - Shanghai Jiao Tong University Joint Institute as an assistant professor in China.

Physical Intelligence Award 01-01-2020 Hamed Shahsavan, Amirreza Aghakhani, Yubing Guo, Zoey Davidson, and Metin Sitti were the Cozzarelli Prize Finalist in the Engineering and Applied Sciences category in the PNAS journal for the research article entitled, “Bioinspired underwater locomotion of light-driven liquid crystal gels” (1 paper won the prize and our paper was the finalist out of over 4000 papers published in PNAS in 2020).

Physical Intelligence Award 01-01-2019 Guillermo Amador joined Wageningen University as an assistant professor in Netherlands.

Physical Intelligence Award 01-01-2019 Hakan Ceylan and Metin Sitti's medical microrobotics research was featured as among “5 amazing projects that will change the future of healthcare” by the PC Magazine.

Physical Intelligence Award 01-01-2019 Matthew Woodward joined Tufts University as an assistant professor in USA.

Physical Intelligence Award 01-01-2019 Metin Sitti received the ERC Advanced Grant for the project titled, "SoMMoR: Soft-bodied Miniature Mobile Robots".

Physical Intelligence Award 01-01-2019 Morteza Amjadi joined Heriot-Watt University as an assistant professor in UK.

Physical Intelligence Award 01-01-2019 Musab Cagri Ugurlu received the Ministry of Education PhD fellowship from Turkey.