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.
Han, Y., Marvi, H., Sitti, M.
Fiberbot: A miniature crawling robot using a directional fibrillar pad
In Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2015 IEEE International Conference on, pages: 3122-3127, May 2015 (inproceedings)
Hines, L., Colmenares, D., Sitti, M.
Platform design and tethered flight of a motor-driven flapping-wing system
In Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2015 IEEE International Conference on, pages: 5838-5845, May 2015 (inproceedings)
Lum, G. Z., Teo, T. J., Yeo, S. H., Yang, G., Sitti, M.
Structural optimization for flexure-based parallel mechanisms–Towards achieving optimal dynamic and stiffness properties
Precision Engineering, 42, pages: 195-207, Elsevier, May 2015 (article)
Song, J., Shawky, J. H., Kim, Y., Hazar, M., LeDuc, P. R., Sitti, M., Davidson, L. A.
Controlled surface topography regulates collective 3D migration by epithelial–mesenchymal composite embryonic tissues
Biomaterials, 58, pages: 1-9, Elsevier, April 2015 (article)
Wu, H., Sariola, V., Zhu, C., Zhao, J., Sitti, M., Bettinger, C. J.
Transfer Printing of Metallic Microstructures on Adhesion-Promoting Hydrogel Substrates
Advanced Materials, 27(22):3398-3404, April 2015 (article)
Sitti, M., Murphy, M., Aksak, B.
Dry adhesives and methods for making dry adhesives
March 2015, US Patent App. 14/625,162 (patent)
Sitti, M., Ceylan, H., Hu, W., Giltinan, J., Turan, M., Yim, S., Diller, E.
Biomedical applications of untethered mobile milli/microrobots
Proceedings of the IEEE, 103(2):205-224, IEEE, March 2015 (article)
Song, J., Shawky, J., Kim, Y. T., Hazar, M., Sitti, M., LeDuc, P. R., Davidson, L. A.
Collective 3D Migration of Embryonic Epithelial Mesenchymal Composite Tissues are Regulated by Surface Topology
Biophysical Journal, 108(2):455a, Elsevier, January 2015 (article)
Chung, S. E., Dong, X., Sitti, M.
Three-dimensional heterogeneous assembly of coded microgels using an untethered mobile microgripper
Lab on a Chip, 15(7):1667-1676, Royal Society of Chemistry, January 2015 (article)
Lum, G. Z., Teo, T. J., Yang, G., Yeo, S. H., Sitti, M.
Integrating mechanism synthesis and topological optimization technique for stiffness-oriented design of a three degrees-of-freedom flexure-based parallel mechanism
Precision Engineering, 39, pages: 125-133, Elsevier, January 2015 (article)
Lee, G., Kim, H., Seo, K., Kim, J., Sitti, M., Seo, T.
Series of Multilinked Caterpillar Track-type Climbing Robots
Journal of Field Robotics, November 2014 (article)
Song, S., Majidi, C., Sitti, M.
Geckogripper: A soft, inflatable robotic gripper using gecko-inspired elastomer micro-fiber adhesives
In Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2014), 2014 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on, pages: 4624-4629, September 2014 (inproceedings)
Sariola, V., Pena-Francesch, A., Jung, H., Çetinkaya, M., Pacheco, C., Sitti, M., Demirel, M. C.
Segmented molecular design of self-healing proteinaceous materials.
Scientific reports, 5, pages: 13482-13482, Nature Publishing Group, July 2014 (article)
Carlsen, R. W., Sitti, M.
Bio-Hybrid Cell-Based Actuators for Microsystems
Small, 10(19):3831-3851, June 2014 (article)
Castillo, L., Aksak, B., Sitti, M.
Fibrillar structures to reduce viscous drag on aerodynamic and hydrodynamic wall surfaces
March 2014, US Patent App. 14/774,767 (misc)
Sitti, M., Aksak, B.
The design of microfibers with mushroom-shaped tips for optimal adhesion
February 2014, US Patent App. 14/766,561 (misc)
Diller, E., Zhuang, J., Zhan Lum, G., Edwards, M. R., Sitti, M.
Continuously distributed magnetization profile for millimeter-scale elastomeric undulatory swimming
Applied Physics Letters, 104(17):174101, AIP, 2014 (article)
Yim, S., Gultepe, E., Gracias, D. H., Sitti, M.
Biopsy using a Magnetic Capsule Endoscope Carrying, Releasing and Retrieving Untethered Micro-Grippers
IEEE Trans. on Biomedical Engineering, 61(2):513-521, IEEE, 2014 (article)
Ozcan, O., Hu, W., Sitti, M., Bain, J., Ricketts, D.
Investigation of tip current and normal force measured simultaneously during local oxidation of titanium using dual-mode scanning probe microscopy
IET Micro \& Nano Letters, 9(5):332-336, IET, 2014 (article)
Giltinan, J., Diller, E., Mayda, C., Sitti, M.
Three-dimensional robotic manipulation and transport of micro-scale objects by a magnetically driven capillary micro-gripper
In Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2014 IEEE International Conference on, pages: 2077-2082, 2014 (inproceedings)
Yim, S., Sitti, M.
SoftCubes: Stretchable and self-assembling three-dimensional soft modular matter
The International Journal of Robotics Research, 33(8):1083-1097, SAGE Publications Sage UK: London, England, 2014 (article)
Diller, E., Ye, Z., Giltinan, J., Sitti, M.
Addressing of Micro-robot Teams and Non-contact Micro-manipulation
In Small-Scale Robotics. From Nano-to-Millimeter-Sized Robotic Systems and Applications, pages: 28-38, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2014 (incollection)
Mengüç, Y., Röhrig, M., Abusomwan, U., Hölscher, H., Sitti, M.
Staying sticky: contact self-cleaning of gecko-inspired adhesives
Journal of The Royal Society Interface, 11(94):20131205, The Royal Society, 2014 (article)
Ye, Z., Sitti, M.
Dynamic Trapping and Two-Dimensional Transport of Swimming Microorganisms Using a Rotating Magnetic Micro-Robot
Lab on a Chip, 14(13):2177-2182, Royal Society of Chemistry, 2014 (article)
Ozcan, O., Wang, H., Taylor, J. D., Sitti, M.
STRIDE II: a water strider-inspired miniature robot with circular footpads
International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems, 11(6):85, SAGE Publications Sage UK: London, England, 2014 (article)
Song, S., Sitti, M.
Soft Grippers Using Micro-Fibrillar Adhesives for Transfer Printing
Advanced Materials, 26(28):4901-4906, 2014 (article)
Campolo, D., Azhar, M., Lau, G., Sitti, M.
Can DC motors directly drive flapping wings at high frequency and large wing strokes?
IEEE/ASME Trans. on Mechatronics, 19(1):109-120, 2014 (article)
Carlsen, R. W., Edwards, M. R., Zhuang, J., Pacoret, C., Sitti, M.
Magnetic steering control of multi-cellular bio-hybrid microswimmers
Lab on a Chip, 14(19):3850-3859, Royal Society of Chemistry, 2014 (article)
Zhuang, J., Wei, G., Carlsen, R. W., Edwards, M. R., Marculescu, R., Bogdan, P., Sitti, M.
Analytical modeling and experimental characterization of chemotaxis in serratia marcescens
Physical Review E, 89(5):052704, American Physical Society, 2014 (article)
Edwards, M. R., Carlsen, R. W., Zhuang, J., Sitti, M.
Swimming characterization of Serratia marcescens for bio-hybrid micro-robotics
Journal of Micro-Bio Robotics, 9(3):47-60, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2014 (article)
Bennet, M., McCarthy, A., Fix, D., Edwards, M. R., Repp, F., Vach, P., Dunlop, J. W., Sitti, M., Buller, G. S., Klumpp, S., others,
Influence of Magnetic Fields on Magneto-Aerotaxis
PLoS One, 9(7):e101150, Public Library of Science, 2014 (article)
Hines, L., Campolo, D., Sitti, M.
Liftoff of a Motor-Driven, Flapping-Wing Microaerial Vehicle Capable of Resonance
IEEE Trans. on Robotics, 30(1):220-232, IEEE, 2014 (article)
Aksak, B., Sahin, K., Sitti, M.
The optimal shape of elastomer mushroom-like fibers for high and robust adhesion
Beilstein journal of nanotechnology, 5(1):630-638, Beilstein-Institut, 2014 (article)
Sariola, V., Sitti, M.
Mechanically Switchable Elastomeric Microfibrillar Adhesive Surfaces for Transfer Printing
Advanced Materials Interfaces, 1(4):1300159, 2014 (article)
Ye, Z., Edington, C., Russell, A. J., Sitti, M.
Versatile non-contact micro-manipulation method using rotational flows locally induced by magnetic microrobots
In Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics (AIM), 2014 IEEE/ASME International Conference on, pages: 26-31, 2014 (inproceedings)
Woodward, M. A., Sitti, M.
MultiMo-Bat: A biologically inspired integrated jumping–gliding robot
The International Journal of Robotics Research, 33(12):1511-1529, SAGE Publications Sage UK: London, England, 2014 (article)
Ye, Z., Régnier, S., Sitti, M.
Rotating Magnetic Miniature Swimming Robots With Multiple Flexible Flagella
IEEE Trans. on Robotics, 30(1):3-13, 2014 (article)
Lum, G. Z., Diller, E., Sitti, M.
Structural optimization method towards synthesis of small scale flexure-based mobile grippers
In Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2014 IEEE International Conference on, pages: 2339-2344, 2014 (inproceedings)
Diller, E., Sitti, M.
Three-Dimensional Programmable Assembly by Untethered Magnetic Robotic Micro-Grippers
Advanced Functional Materials, 24, pages: 4397-4404, 2014 (article)
Diller, E. D., Giltinan, J., Lum, G. Z., Ye, Z., Sitti, M.
Six-Degrees-of-Freedom Remote Actuation of Magnetic Microrobots.
In Robotics: Science and Systems, 2014 (inproceedings)
Abusomwan, U. A., Sitti, M.
Mechanics of Load–Drag–Unload Contact Cleaning of Gecko-Inspired Fibrillar Adhesives
Langmuir, 30(40):11913-11918, American Chemical Society, 2014 (article)
Sitti, M., Kim, S.
Dry adhesives and methods for making dry adhesives
sep 2013, US Patent App. 14/016,651 (misc)
Sitti, M., Kim, S.
Dry adhesives and methods for making dry adhesives
sep 2013, US Patent App. 14/016,683 (misc)
Sitti, M., Kim, S.
Dry adhesives and methods for making dry adhesives
sep 2013, US Patent 8,524,092 (misc)
Sitti, M., Murphy, M., Aksak, B.
Dry adhesives and methods of making dry adhesives
March 2013, US Patent App. 13/845,702 (misc)
Yim, S., Sitti, M.
3-D Localization Method for a Magnetically Actuated Soft Capsule Endoscope and Its Applications
IEEE Trans. on Robotics, 29(5):1139-1151, 2013 (article)
Thatte, N., Khoramshahi, M., Ijspeert, A., Sitti, M.
Angular Motion Control Using a Closed-Loop CPG for a Water-Running Robot
In Dynamic Walking 2013, (EPFL-CONF-199763), 2013 (inproceedings)
Miyashita, S., Diller, E., Sitti, M.
Two-dimensional magnetic micro-module reconfigurations based on inter-modular interactions
The International Journal of Robotics Research, 32(5):591-613, SAGE Publications Sage UK: London, England, 2013 (article)
Piccardo, M., Chateauminois, A., Fretigny, C., Pugno, N. M., Sitti, M.
Contact compliance effects in the frictional response of bioinspired fibrillar adhesives
Journal of The Royal Society Interface, 10(83):20130182, The Royal Society, 2013 (article)
Song, J., Kim, Y. T., Hazar, M., LeDuc, P. R., Davidson, L. A., Sitti, M.
Topological Control of Cell Sheet Migration by the 3D Microenvironment
Biophysical Journal, 104(2):147a, Elsevier, 2013 (article)