Publicity

Water Runner robot inspired by basilisk lizard research

• Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, ''CMU robot walks on water,'' April 6, 2006 by Jennifer Bail. link
• Discovery Channel News, ''Robot Runs Over Water,'' April 25, 2006 by Tracy Staedter. link
• Daily Planet, Discovery Channel Canada, April 27, 2006. link

Endoscopic microcapsule robot and other biomedical microrobotics research

• Popular Mechanics, ''Your Upgrade Is Ready,'' May 2006 issue by Mark Hooper. link
• Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, ''Robot combined with swallowable camera could give docs a better look inside the small intestine,'' May 30, 2005 by Byron Spice. link
• medGadget, ''Robot Sought For Capsule Endoscope,'' June 1, 2005. link
• Nanobiotech News, ''Nano-Enabled imaging capsule could provide better peek inside small intestine,'' July 27, 2005, vol. 3, no. 28, pg. 4-5. pdf

Water strider robot research

• Pittsburgh Tribune, Monday, February 6, 2006. link
• Fortune Magazine, Wednesday, January 24, 2005 by Stuart F. Brown
• Discovery Channel News, by Tracy Staedter, May 15, 2005. link
• USA Today. link
• MSNBC, Sept. 10, 2004. link
• Pittsburgh Tribune. link
• Le Monde, France, 14.09.04. link
• Forbes, Sept. 10, 2004. link

Nanomanipulation research

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

Gecko foot-hair inspired adheive research

• D.G. Rowe, ''Synthetic gecko hairs promise walking up walls,'' New Scientist Magazine, 14 May 2003. link
• H.R. Pilcher, ''Lizards help adhesive design,'' Nature News, 2 June 2003. link
• Tartan/CMU. link
• B. Spice, ''Scientists unravel mystery of geckos' sticky feet,'' Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, July 07, 2003. link
• ''Science plans 'non-stick' submarine,'' BBC News, 10 October 2003. link
• J. Roach, ''Will Gecko Tape Let Humans Climb Walls?'', National Geographic News, 2 June 2003. link
• D. L. Christiansen, ''Adhesives and Sealants,'' Industrial Technology and Design Teachers' Association of Queensland, November 2002. link
• 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 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. pdf 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. Zäh, "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.