Dr. Metin Sitti is the director of the Physical Intelligence Department at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Stuttgart, Germany. He is also an honorary professor in University of Stuttgart, professor in Koç University, Istanbul, Turkey, and distinguished service professor in Carnegie Mellon University. He was a professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and in the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, USA (2002-2014) and a research scientist at University of California at Berkeley, USA (1999-2002). He received the BSc (1992) and MSc (1994) degrees in electrical and electronics engineering from Boğaziçi University, Turkey, and the PhD degree (1999) in electrical engineering from the University of Tokyo, Japan.
He is an IEEE Fellow. As selected awards, he received the ERC Advanced Grant (2019), Rahmi Koç Medal of Science (2018), Best Paper Award in the Robotics Science and Systems Conference (2019), IEEE/ASME Best Mechatronics Paper Award (2014), SPIE Nanoengineering Pioneer Award (2011), Best Paper Award in the IEEE/RSJ Intelligent Robots and Systems Conference (1998, 2009), and NSF CAREER Award (2005). He has published over 440 peer-reviewed papers, over 240 of which have appeared in archival journals. He is the editor-in-chief of both Progress in Biomedical Engineering and Journal of Micro-Bio Robotics. His research interests include physical intelligence, small-scale mobile robotics, bio-inspiration, advanced functional micro/nanomaterials, and miniature medical devices.
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)
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)
Amador, G. J., Tabak, A. F., Ren, Z., Alapan, Y., Yasa, O., Sitti, M.
Thermocapillary-driven fluid flow within microchannels
ArXiv e-prints, Febuary 2018 (article)
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)
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)
Amjadi, M., Sheykhansari, S., Nelson, B. J., Sitti, M.
Recent Advances in Wearable Transdermal Delivery Systems
Advanced Materials, 30(7):1704530, January 2018 (article)
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)
Hu, W., Lum, G. Z., Mastrangeli, M., Sitti, M.
Small-scale soft-bodied robot with multimodal locomotion
Nature, 554, pages: 81-85, Nature, January 2018 (article)
Sridhar, V., Park, B., Sitti, M.
Light‐Driven Janus Hollow Mesoporous TiO2–Au Microswimmers
Advanced Functional Materials, 28(5):1704902, January 2018 (article)
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)
Zhou Ye, G. Z. L. M. S.
Method and device for reversibly attaching a phase changing metal to an object
US Patent Application US 2018/0021892 A1, January 2018 (patent)
Guo Zhan Lum, Z. Y. M. S.
Method of fabricating a shape-changeable magentic member, method of producing a shape changeable magnetic member and shape changeable magnetic member
US Patent Application US 2018/0012693 A1, January 2018 (patent)
Kim, H., Woodward, M. A., Sitti, M.
Enhanced Non-Steady Gliding Performance of the MultiMo-Bat through Optimal Airfoil Configuration and Control Strategy
In 2018 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), pages: 1382-1388, 2018 (inproceedings)
Munoz, F., Alici, G., Zhou, H., Li, W., M. Sitti,
Analysis of Magnetic Interaction in Remotely Controlled Magnetic Devices and Its Application to a Capsule Robot for Drug Delivery
IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, 23(1):298-310, 2018 (article)
Singh, A., Jahnke, T., Wang, S., Xiao, Y., Alapan, Y., Kharratian, S., Onbasli, M. C., Kozielski, K., David, H., Richter, G., Bill, J., Laux, P., Luch, A., Sitti, M.
Anisotropic Gold Nanostructures: Optimization via in Silico Modeling for Hyperthermia
ACS Applied Nano Materials, 1(11):6205-6216, 2018 (article)
Wang, W., Kishore, V., Koens, L., Lauga, E., Sitti, M.
Collectives of Spinning Mobile Microrobots for Navigation and Object Manipulation at the Air-Water Interface
In 2018 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), pages: 1-9, 2018 (inproceedings)
Son, D., Dong, X., Sitti, M.
A Simultaneous Calibration Method for Magnetic Robot Localization and Actuation Systems
IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 2018 (article)
Santomauro, G., Singh, A., Park, B. W., Mohammadrahimi, M., Erkoc, P., Goering, E., Schütz, G., Sitti, M., Bill, J.
Incorporation of Terbium into a Microalga Leads to Magnetotactic Swimmers
Advanced Biosystems, 2(12):1800039, 2018 (article)
Turan, M., Almalioglu, Y., Gilbert, H. B., Sari, A. E., Soylu, U., Sitti, M.
Endo-VMFuseNet: A Deep Visual-Magnetic Sensor Fusion Approach for Endoscopic Capsule Robots
In 2018 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), pages: 1-7, 2018 (inproceedings)
Woodward, M. A., Sitti, M.
Morphological intelligence counters foot slipping in the desert locust and dynamic robots
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 115, pages: E8358-E8367, 2018 (article)
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
In 2018 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), pages: 1-8, 2018 (inproceedings)
Singh, A. V., Gharat, T., Batuwangala, M., Park, B. W., Endlein, T., Sitti, M.
Three‐dimensional patterning in biomedicine: Importance and applications in neuropharmacology
Journal of Biomedical Materials Research Part B: Applied Biomaterials, 106(3):1369-1382, 2018 (article)
Sanli, U. T., Ceylan, H., Bykova, I., Weigand, M., Sitti, M., Schütz, G., Keskinbora, K.
3D nanoprinted plastic kinoform x-ray optics
{Advanced Materials}, 30(36), Wiley-VCH, Weinheim, 2018 (article)
Khalil, I. S. M., Tabak, A. F., Seif, M. A., Klingner, A., Sitti, M.
Controllable switching between planar and helical flagellar swimming of a soft robotic sperm
PloS One, 13(11):e0206456, 2018 (article)
Ipparthi, D., Hageman, T. A. G., Cambier, N., Sitti, M., Dorigo, M., Abelmann, L., Mastrangeli, M.
Kinetics of orbitally shaken particles constrained to two dimensions
Physical Review E, 98(4):042137, 2018 (article)
Singh, A. V., Alapan, Y., Jahnke, T., Laux, P., Luch, A., Aghakhani, A., Kharratian, S., Onbasli, M. C., Bill, J., Sitti, M.
Seed-mediated synthesis of plasmonic gold nanoribbons using cancer cells for hyperthermia applications
Journal of Materials Chemistry B, 6(46):7573-7581, 2018 (article)
Hines, L., Petersen, K., Lum, G. Z., Sitti, M.
Soft Actuators for Small-Scale Robotics
Advanced Materials, 2017 (article)
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)
Ceylan, H., Yasa, I. C., Sitti, M.
3D Chemical Patterning of Micromaterials for Encoded Functionality
Advanced Materials, 2017 (article)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
Ajay, V. S., Tanmay, G., Madu, B., Byung‐Wook, P., Thomas, E., Metin, S.
Three‐dimensional patterning in biomedicine: Importance and applications in neuropharmacology
Journal of Biomedical Materials Research Part B: Applied Biomaterials, 106(3):1369-1382, June 2017 (article)
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(3):1207–1217, IEEE, June 2017 (article)
Sproewitz, 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)
Erin, O., Giltinan, J., Tsai, L., Sitti, M.
Design and actuation of a magnetic millirobot under a constant unidirectional magnetic field
In 2017 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 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)
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)
Zhuang, J., Park, B., Sitti, M.
Propulsion and Chemotaxis in Bacteria-Driven Microswimmers
Advanced Science, 4(9):1700109, May 2017 (article)
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)
Drotlef, D., Amjadi, M., Yunusa, M., Sitti, M.
Bioinspired Composite Microfibers for Skin Adhesion and Signal Amplification of Wearable Sensors
Advanced Materials, 29(28):1701353, May 2017, Back Cover (article)
Mostaghaci, B., Yasa, O., Zhuang, J., Sitti, M.
Bioadhesive Bacterial Microswimmers for Targeted Drug Delivery in the Urinary and Gastrointestinal Tracts
Advanced Science, 4(6):1700058, May 2017 (article)