Press

Our group's YouTube channel showcases work we do. 

Check some of the media articles that talk about our work!

• July 2024: Eureka, The Engineer, TechXplore, etc., Multimodal soft valve enables physical responsiveness for preemptive resilience of soft robots

• June 2024: BBC Radio 4 Best Medicine show

• September 2021: IEEE's Soft Robotics Podcast features Dana and Shuhei discussing about the limits of soft robotics, bio-hybrid robots, and challenges in robot's autonomy.  The podcast episode can be found on the following platforms: Spotify, Soundcloud, YouTube.

• January 2020: Sheffield Council is recognizing our and the Sheffield Microrobotics Lab's work on ingestible and in-the-body robots for tissue repair, and support for child health technology.

• July 2019: An editorial by Prof Michiko Watanabe in the Birth Defects Research Journal mentions our work on regenerative robotics: "These ... ingenious devices combine the knowledge of cell and tissue regeneration in vitro and in vivo, robotics, material science, and sensors. The current advancements provide a unifying platform for more personalized and long‐term therapies that can transform the lives of patients with birth defects." 

• January 2019: Our ingestible robot features in a National Geographic article, January 2019 issue, among the 12 innovations that will revolutionize the future of medicine.

• September 2018: A news article in Communications of the ACM Magazine talks about our work on robotic implants and the exciting times of the in vivo robots. 

• January 2018: Vector, Uni Sheffield, Science News, The Telegraph, New Scientist, Wired, BGR, Discover Magazine, Daily Mail, Futurism, EurekAlert, CBC.ca Radio, ET HealthWorld, Science Friday, The Statesman, New York Post, Times of India, Motherboard, Science Daily, New Atlas, Rare Disease Report, DNA, The Engineer, Medical Product Outsourcing, European Pharmaceutical Review, Cosmos Magazine, Yorkshire Post, Electronics 360, Business Standard, and more (2018) In vivo tissue regeneration with robotic implants 

• May 2016: MIT news, MIT top page, Science (online), The Washington Post, Forbes, The Economist, USA Today, CNBC, Sky news, CBS News, The Independent, Business Insider, The Telegraph, Entrepreneur, The Huffington Post, Dailymail, Wired, Phys.org, Gizmodo, The Verge, CNET, AJ+, Engadget, RT, Techcrunch, Boston.com, WorldPress.com, ITmedia News, PC Magazine, United Press International (UPI), Digital Trends, Newsweek, Code.org, Tech Insider, pcmag, ARS Technica, The Medical Frontier, Quartz, Springer, Tech Insider, digg, Laughing Squid, ZDNet, Gigazine, Siliconrepublic, Slashgear, Boingboing, Materials World, Medical News Today, Science Focus, STAT, UPROXX, Zesty, Mic, Scifeeds, Extreme Tech, hipertextual, Mirror, EurekAlert, Scoop.it, Gizmag, News Every Day, Med Device Online, Science Daily, R&D Magazine, Nature World News, NH Voice, SlashGear, Quartz, Popular Science, ExtremeTech, Tech.Mic, Popular Mechanics, Crazy Engineers, Med Device Online, Daily News, Gadgette, eWeek, The Science Explorer, Boston Patch, Miami Herald, WFLA, DOTmed.com, NowThis, and more (2016) Ingestible Origami Robot 

• February 2015: NBC News, CyborgRx: How Smart Implants Could Change Medicine

• October 2013: Boston Globe (paper version), Why the doctors hired an engineer, October 28

• 2010: Alejandro Hernandez Arieta, Konstantinos Dermitzakis, Dana Damian, Sensory Feedback for body awareness in prosthetic applications. The Neuromorphic Engineer. A publication of INE-ORG. DOI10.2417/1201004.002880

• 2010: Universitat Zurich Magazine, Cyborgplant project at the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, issue Nr 3, 19. Jahrgang, September