Water Runner robot inspired by basilisk lizard research

• Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, "CMU robot walks on water", April 6, 2006 by Jennifer Bail.

• Discovery Channel News, "Water Runner and Its Disk Feet", April 25, 2006 by Tracy Staedter.

Endoscopic microcapsule robot and other biomedical microrobotics research

• Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, "Robot combined with swallowable camera could give docs a better look inside the small intestine", May 30, 2005 by Byron Spice.

• medGadget, "Robot Sought For Capsule Endoscope", June 1, 2005 by Gene Outrovsky.

Water strider robot research

• Pittsburgh Tribune, "Commerce secretary impressed by CMU", February 4, 2006 by David M. Brown.

• Fortune Magazine, Wednesday, January 24, 2005 by Stuart F. Brown

• USA Today, "CMU team builds robot that walks on water", September 10, 2004 by Mike Crissey.

• Pittsburgh Tribune, "CMU robot walks on water ", September 14, 2004 by Jennifer Bails.

Nanomanipulation research

• Science, vol. 162, no. 9, p. 133, 31 August 2002.

Magnetic micro-robot research

• MIT technology review, "Precision Control of Micro Machines", February 4, 2006 by David M. Brown.

• History Channel, "The Works: Robots", September 2008.

• KUOW, Seattle, "Fun with Robots!", July 2008.

• Engineering TV, "Magnetically Actuated Micro-Robots", June 11, 2008 by Curtis Ellzey..

• RoboCup Nanogram, "RoboCup Nanogram Demonstration Competition, 2007 and 2008"

Gecko foot-hair inspired adheive research

• CMU News, "Carnegie Mellon's Metin Sitti and Colleagues Work To Use Gecko Biology for Printing Electronics on Complex Surfaces", October 5, 2010 by Chriss Swaney.

• Pittsburgh Tribune Review, "Newsmaker: Metin Sitti", October 21, 2010 by Tim Puko.

• Science Daily, "Geckos Inspire New Method to Print Electronics On Complex Surfaces", September, 2010.

• NewScientist, "Synthetic gecko hairs promise walking up walls", May 14, 2003 by Duncan Graham-Rowe.

• Nature, "Lizards help adhesive design", June 2, 2003 by Helen R. Pulcher.

• Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, "Scientists unravel mystery of geckos' sticky feet", July 7, 2003 by Byron Spice.

• BBC NEWS, "Science plans 'non-stick' submarine", October 10, 2003.

• NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC NEWS, "Will "Gecko Tape" Let Humans Climb Walls?", June 2, 2003 by John Roach.

• INTAD, "Adhesives and Sealants"

• Merit Times, ''Scientists uncover gecko stickiness,'' 7 September 2002.

• Robert Sanders, ''A sticky puzzle is solved,'' Berkeleyan, 4 September 2002.

• Sophie Wilkinson, ''Holding fast: Van der Waals bonding, not capillary adhesion, attaches geckos to ceilings,'' Chemical and Engineering News, Tom Blank, vol. 80, no.35, p. 10, 2 September 2002.

• Katie Pennicott, ''Geckos' feet gets sticky from static,'' Physics Web, 30 August 2002.

• Kendall Powell, ''Gecko glue round the corner,'' Nature News, 28 August 2002.

• William McCall, The Salina Journal, ''Scientists say they've answered the centuries-old mystery,'' 27 August 2002.

• Jean Kempe-Ware, ''Scientists prove how geckos stick, unlock secrets to making artificial gecko glue,'' EurekAlert, 26 August 2002.

Lab Honors

• Second Prize in the World RoboCup Nanogram League - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2010), Anchorage, Alaska. Team members: S. Floyd, C. Pawashe, E. Diller, and M. Sitti

• Best Conference Paper Award - IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2009). S. Floyd, C. Pawashe, and M. Sitti, ''Microparticle Manipulation using Multiple Untethered Magnetic Micro-Robots on an Electrostatic Surface.''

• Paper selected among Core 15 Papers for Thomson Scientific's Fast Moving Front Map of Materials Science, S. Kim and M. Sitti, "Biologically inspired polymer microfibers with spatulate tips as repeatable fibrillar adhesives," link, January 2008.

• World RoboCup NanoGram Demonstration League, Second Prize, Atlanta, 2007, Chytra Pawashe and Steven Floyd

• Best Student Paper Finalist, Eugene Cheung, Mustafa Karagozler, S. Park, B.Kim, M. Sitti, "A New Endoscopic Microcapsule Robot Using Beetle Inspired Microfibrillar Adhesives," AIM 2005, Monterey Bay, CA, July 2005.

• Best Biomimetics Paper and finalist for Best Conference Paper - RoBio 2004 C. Menon, M. Murphy, M. Sitti, "Gecko Inspired Surface Climbing Robots" IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO), Shenyang, China, Aug 2004.

• Best Manipulation Paper Nomination, Amrinder Nain, Daniel Goldman, and Metin Sitti, "Three-dimensional nanoscale manipulation and manufacturing using proximal probes: Controlled pulling of polymer micro/nanofibers," IEEE Robotics and Automation Conference, New Orleans, May 2004.

• Best Paper Nomination, Wolfgang Vogl, Metin Sitti, and Michael F. Zah, "Nanomanipulation with 3D visual and force feedback using Atomic Force Microscopes," IEEE Nanotechnology Conference, Munich, Germany, 16-19 Aug. 2004.

• Best Teaching Assistant Award, Fall 2004 awarded to Burak Aksak, Spring 2004 and Spring 2006 awarded to Mike Murphy, Fall 2006 awarded to Eugene Cheung, Fall 2007 awarded to Chytra Pawashe.