What we look for at Science Robotics.

Science Robotics welcomes papers demonstrating technical and scientific advances, with potential for influence beyond robotics.

NASA's Perseverance: Robot laboratory on Mars.

Perseverance could be the first robot to find Mars microfossils.

Combating COVID-19-The role of robotics in managing public health and infectious diseases.

COVID-19 may drive sustained research in robotics to address risks of infectious diseases.

Autonomous vehicles: An imperfect path to saving millions of lives.

Autonomous vehicles will eventually save millions of lives, underscoring the importance of accelerating research, development, engineering, and testing.

Ten robotics technologies of the year.

We identify 10 exciting robotics developments and technologies, ranging from original research that may change the future of robotics to commercial products that enable basic science and drive industrial and medical innovations.

The grand challenges of Science Robotics.

One of the ambitions of Science Robotics is to deeply root robotics research in science while developing novel robotic platforms that will enable new scientific discoveries. Of our 10 grand challenges, the first 7 represent underpinning technologies that have a wider impact on all application areas of robotics. For the next two challenges, we have included social robotics and medical robotics as application-specific areas of development to highlight the substantial societal and health impacts that they will bring. Finally, the last challenge is related to responsible innovation and how ethics and security should be carefully considered as we develop the technology further.

Science for robotics and robotics for science.

Science Robotics has been launched to cover the most important advances in the development and application of robots, with interest in hardware and software as well as social interactions and implications.