Robotics

"Robotics" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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The application of electronic, computerized control systems to mechanical devices designed to perform human functions. Formerly restricted to industry, but nowadays applied to artificial organs controlled by bionic (bioelectronic) devices, like automated insulin pumps and other prostheses.

Descriptor ID	D012371
MeSH Number(s)	H01.671.293.643 J01.897.104.834 L01.224.050.375.630
Concept/Terms	Robotics Robotics Soft Robotics Soft Robotics Robotic, Soft Robotics, Soft Soft Robotic Remote Operations (Robotics) Remote Operations (Robotics) Operation, Remote (Robotics) Operations, Remote (Robotics) Remote Operation (Robotics) Telerobotics Telerobotics

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Natural Sciences [H]
Natural Science Disciplines [H01]
Physics [H01.671]
Electronics [H01.671.293]
Robotics [H01.671.293.643]
Technology, Industry, Agriculture [J]
Technology, Industry, and Agriculture [J01]
Technology [J01.897]
Automation [J01.897.104]
Robotics [J01.897.104.834]
Information Science [L]
Information Science [L01]
Computing Methodologies [L01.224]
Algorithms [L01.224.050]
Artificial Intelligence [L01.224.050.375]
Robotics [L01.224.050.375.630]

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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Robotics" by people in this website by year, and whether "Robotics" was a major or minor topic of these publications.

Bar chart showing 38 publications over 19 distinct years, with a maximum of 6 publications in 2013

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Year	Major Topic	Minor Topic	Total
2004	1	0	1
2005	0	1	1
2008	1	0	1
2009	1	0	1
2010	1	0	1
2011	1	1	2
2012	2	0	2
2013	6	0	6
2014	2	1	3
2015	3	1	4
2016	1	0	1
2017	1	0	1
2018	2	1	3
2019	1	1	2
2021	1	1	2
2022	2	0	2
2023	2	0	2
2024	1	1	2
2025	1	0	1

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Klumpe S, Mitchell KC, Cox E, Katz JS, Lazarowski L, Deshpande G, Gratch J, de Visser EJ, Ayaz H, Li X, Franke AA, Krueger F. Social bonding between humans, animals, and robots: Dogs outperform AIBOs, their robotic replicas, as social companions. PLoS One. 2025; 20(6):e0324312.

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Lim J, Wang PT, Joon Sohn W, Serrano-Amenos C, Ibrahim M, Lin D, Thaploo S, Shaw SJ, Armacost M, Gong H, Lee B, Lee D, Andersen RA, Heydari P, Liu CY, Nenadic Z, Do AH. Early feasibility of an embedded bi-directional brain-computer interface for ambulation. Annu Int Conf IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc. 2024 Jul; 2024:1-5.

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Dogan NO, Suadiye E, Wrede P, Lazovic J, Dayan CB, Soon RH, Aghakhani A, Richter G, Sitti M. Immune Cell-Based Microrobots for Remote Magnetic Actuation, Antitumor Activity, and Medical Imaging. Adv Healthc Mater. 2024 09; 13(23):e2400711.

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Soon RH, Yin Z, Dogan MA, Dogan NO, Tiryaki ME, Karacakol AC, Aydin A, Esmaeili-Dokht P, Sitti M. Pangolin-inspired untethered magnetic robot for on-demand biomedical heating applications. Nat Commun. 2023 06 20; 14(1):3320.

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Sood A, Grauer R, Diaz-Insua M, Tewari AK, Hemal AK, Shrivastava A, Peabody JO, Jeong W, Abdollah F, Rudzinski JK, Andrews JR, Gorin MA, Bhandari M, Menon M. 15-year biochemical failure, metastasis, salvage therapy, and cancer-specific and overall survival rates in men treated with robotic radical prostatectomy for PSA-screen detected prostate cancer. Prostate Cancer Prostatic Dis. 2023 12; 26(4):778-786.

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Zhang J, Soon RH, Wei Z, Hu W, Sitti M. Liquid Metal-Elastomer Composites with Dual-Energy Transmission Mode for Multifunctional Miniature Untethered Magnetic Robots. Adv Sci (Weinh). 2022 11; 9(31):e2203730.

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Soon RH, Ren Z, Hu W, Bozuyuk U, Yildiz E, Li M, Sitti M. On-demand anchoring of wireless soft miniature robots on soft surfaces. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2022 08 23; 119(34):e2207767119.

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Cesanek E, Zhang Z, Ingram JN, Wolpert DM, Flanagan JR. Motor memories of object dynamics are categorically organized. Elife. 2021 11 19; 10.

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Zhang J, Ren Z, Hu W, Soon RH, Yasa IC, Liu Z, Sitti M. Voxelated three-dimensional miniature magnetic soft machines via multimaterial heterogeneous assembly. Sci Robot. 2021 04 28; 6(53).

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Sadeghi M, Sheahan HR, Ingram JN, Wolpert DM. The visual geometry of a tool modulates generalization during adaptation. Sci Rep. 2019 02 25; 9(1):2731.

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