IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine

Article	Citations
IROS 2021 Online in Prague [Society News]	178
Join the IEEE Robotics & Automation Society (RAS) today	121
In Memoriam: Vincent Hayward (1955–2023) [Society News]	117
RAM Calendar - for September 2023 issue [Calendar]	77
The Art of Wine and Its Harvesting Methods [Student’s Corner]	61
IEEE Tech RXIV: Share Your Preprint Research with the World!	54
Welcome New IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Chapters [Society News]	51
Inflection Points [President’s Message]	49
IEEE RAS SOCIETY AWARDS Call for Nominations	39
IEEE Feedback	37
Calendar	36
IEEE Tech RXIV: Share Your Preprint Research with the World!	32
A Survey on Small-Scale Testbeds for Connected and Automated Vehicles and Robot Swarms: A Guide for Creating a New Testbed [Survey]	28
Contact Shape and Pose Recognition: Utilizing a Multipole Magnetic Tactile Sensor With a Metalearning Model	28
Robot of the Month	27
A Benchmarking Study of Vision-Based Robotic Grasping Algorithms: A Comparative Analysis	25
The ILIAD Safety Stack: Human-Aware Infrastructure-Free Navigation of Industrial Mobile Robots	24
The First Global Ontological Standard for Ethically Driven Robotics and Automation Systems [Standards]	23
IEEE Access	22
TechRxiv: Share Your Preprint Research With the World!	22
Call for Nominations [Society News]	22
[Calendar]	21
Call for Nominations: IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine Associate Editors [Society News]	20
Force Dimension	20
Ruminations on CES, Robotics, and the Future [President’s Message]	20

Launching Queer in Robotics [Women in Engineering]	19
ABET’s New Accreditation Criteria for Robotics and Mechatronics Engineering: A Summary [Industry Activities]	19
IEEE Access	18
IEEE Feedback	18
Davide Scaramuzza to Receive the 2024 IEEE Kiyo Tomiyasu Award [Society News]	18
Humanoid Robot RHP Friends: Seamless Combination of Autonomous and Teleoperated Tasks in a Nursing Context	17
Automation and Artificial Intelligence Technology in Surface Mining: A Brief Introduction to Open-Pit Operations in the Pilbara [Survey]	17
BEAR-H: An Intelligent Bilateral Exoskeletal Assistive Robot for Smart Rehabilitation	17
Staff list	17
The Challenges of Using Robots to Automate the Recycling of Electronic Devices: A New Approach Incorporating AI, Modularity, and Soft Robotics	17
Semiautonomous Precision Pruning of Upright Fruiting Offshoot Orchard Systems: An Integrated Approach	17
2025 IEEE RAS Award Recipients Announced	16
Robotics ad	15
Biomimetic Electric Sense-Based Localization: A Solution for Small Underwater Robots in a Large-Scale Environment	15
Biomimetic Force and Impedance Adaptation Based on Broad Learning System in Stable and Unstable Tasks: Creating an Incremental and Explainable Neural Network With Functional Linkage	15
Toward Fully Autonomous Aviation: PIBOT, a Humanoid Robot Pilot for Human-Centric Aircraft Cockpits	14
Masthead	14
Robotics.org AD	14
Manipulator Differential Kinematics: Part 2: Acceleration and Advanced Applications	14
IEEE connects you to a universe of information!	14
Deadline for RAS Local Chapter Initiative Grants	13
Peter Luh, the Father of Automation [In Memoriam]	13
Drone Landing Performance in Windy Conditions: Comparing the Vertical and Horizontal Landing Approaches With the EAGLES Port	13
Becoming a Plenary or Keynote Speaker in an International Robotics Conference: Perspectives From an IEEE RAS Women in Engineering Panel [Women in Engineering]	13
Accelerating Surgical Robotics Research: A Review of 10 Years With the da Vinci Research Kit	12
2025 IEEE RAS Chapter Initiative Grant Deadlines	12
Robotics Ad	12
Autonomous Ground Navigation in Highly Constrained Spaces: Lessons Learned From the Third BARN Challenge at ICRA 2024 [Competitions]	12
Robot Cell Modeling via Exploratory Robot Motions: A Novel and Accessible Data-Driven Approach	12
Call for IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Sustainability Grant Applications [Society News]	12
The IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Congratulates Recently Elevated Senior Members [Society News]	11
IEEE App	11
Robots.ieee.org	11
IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine Welcomes New Associate Editors [Society News]	11
The IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Congratulates Our Recently Elevated Senior Members [Society News]	11
Neuromorphic Quadratic Programming for Efficient and Scalable Model Predictive Control: Towards Advancing Speed and Energy Efficiency in Robotic Control	10
Cooperative Aerial Robot Inspection Challenge: A Benchmark for Heterogeneous Multi-Uncrewed-Aerial-Vehicle Planning and Lessons Learned	10
Robotic Grasping and Manipulation Competition at the 2024 IEEE/RAS International Conference on Robotics and Automation [Competitions]	10
Tumbling Robot Control Using Reinforcement Learning: An Adaptive Control Policy That Transfers Well to the Real World	10
Recent Developments of Subsurface Small-Leak Detection Techniques in Water Distribution Networks: A Review	10
Call for Papers Special Issue on Biomimetic Perception, Cognition, and Control: From Nature to Robots	9
TechRxiv: Share Your Preprint Research With the World!	9
Call for IEEE Fellow Nominations-Class of 2023	9
Greetings From the 2022 IEEE Robotics and Automation Society President [President’s Message]	9
Visual Place Recognition: A Tutorial [Tutorial]	9
The IEEE Robotics and Automation Award [Society News]	8
Masthead	8
Call for Proposals 2024 RAS Technical Education Programs [Society News]	8
2023 IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Fellow Class Announced [Society News]	8
IEEE Ras Society Awards Call for Nominations [Society News]	8

Uncertainty-Aware Trajectory Planning: Using Uncertainty Quantification and Propagation in Traversability Prediction of Planetary Rovers	8
Take Your Preprint Research with the World!	8
Anniversaries Are a Good Time to Reflect on the Past, Present, and Future of Robotics and Automation [President’s Message]	8
Toward Lifelong Learning for Industrial Defect Classification: A Proposed Framework	7
IEEE Access	7
Visuo-Tactile Recognition of Partial Point Clouds Using PointNet and Curriculum Learning: Enabling Tactile Perception from Visual Data	7
Industrial Activities Board Grows to Meet New Challenges and Future Opportunities [Industry Activities]	7
Digital Robot Judge: Building a Task-Centric Performance Database of Real-World Manipulation With Electronic Task Boards	7
Calendar	7
Gentle Machines, Tough Questions: Ethics in Soft Robotics	6
KUKA	6
IEEE Moving	6
Front Cover	6
Curriculum-Based Reinforcement Learning for Quadrupedal Jumping: A Reference-Free Design	6
Toward Sustainable and Accessible Mobility: A Functional Electrical Stimulation-Based Robotic Bike With a Fatigue-Compensation Algorithm and Mechanism for Cybathlon 2020	6
ICRA @ 40: A Special Event to Commemorate the 40th Anniversary of ICRA and RAS [Society News]	6
Call for Students Participating in IEEE Robotic Standardization Efforts (SPIRSE) [Society News]	6
Humanoids and Robot Learning [President’s Message]	6
ICRA 2022 Highlights [Society News]	6
Online Tuning of Control Parameters for Off-Road Mobile Robots: Novel Deterministic and Neural Network-Based Approaches	6
IEEE Feedback	6
Autonomous Ultraviolet-C Disinfection and Wiping Robot: Assessment in a Hospital Environment	5
A RoboStack Tutorial: Using the Robot Operating System Alongside the Conda and Jupyter Data Science Ecosystems	5
Automated Behavior Planning for Fruit Tree Pruning via Redundant Robot Manipulators: Addressing the Behavior Planning Challenge	5
Benchmarking Torque Control Strategies for a Torsion-Based Series Elastic Actuator	5
Agricultural Robotics and Automation [TC Spotlight]	5
An Interactive Augmented Reality Interface for Personalized Proxemics Modeling: Comfort and Human–Robot Interactions	5
Masthead	5
Reinforcement Learning for Outdoor Balloon Navigation: A Successful Controller for an Autonomous Balloon	5
Engine Agnostic Graph Environments for Robotics (EAGERx): A Graph-Based Framework for Sim2real Robot Learning	5
Damping in Compliant Actuation: A Review	4
Long-Term Visual Simultaneous Localization and Mapping: Using a Bayesian Persistence Filter-Based Global Map Prediction	4
Empowering the Next Wave of Robotics Innovators: Introducing the New RAS Young Professionals Committee [Young Profess Ionals]	4
Standards Update: Robot Task Representation Standard and User Guide Development [Standards]	4
Distributed Optimization Methods for Multi-Robot Systems: Part 2—A Survey	4
Table of Contents	4
Impacts of Design and Behavior on the Acceptance of Anthropomorphic Service Robots: Statistical Modeling of Post-Experiment Questionnaire Responses	4
Development of Fault Detection Systems: The Hadoop Ecosystem Implementation	4
Call for IEEE Fellow Nominations, Class of 2024 [Society News]	4
Variable Stiffness, Sensing, and Healing in FESTO’s FinRay Gripper: An Industry-Driven Design	4
Front Cover	4
A Digital Twin of the Research Vessel Gunnerus for Lifecycle Services: Outlining Key Technologies	3
GeMuCo: Generalized Multisensory Correlational Model for Body Schema Learning	3
Robotics Labs and Other Hands-On Teaching During COVID-19: Change Is Here to Stay?	3
The Franka Emika Robot: A Reference Platform for Robotics Research and Education	3
ARviz: An Augmented Reality-Enabled Visualization Platform for ROS Applications	3
IEEE Connecting	3
Anima Anandkumar to Receive the 2025 IEEE Kiyo Tomiyasu Award [Society News]	3
RAM Calendar - for March 2023 issue [Calendar]	3
Automatic Gripper-Finger Design, Production, and Application: Toward Fast and Cost-Effective Small-Batch Production	3
Robotics ad	3
New Era in Cultural Heritage Preservation: Cooperative Aerial Autonomy for Fast Digitalization of Difficult-to-Access Interiors of Historical Monuments	3
IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Announces Its 2022-2023 President-Elect	3
Enhancing Campus Mobility: Achievements and Challenges of the Snow Lion Autonomous Shuttle	3
Safe and Effective Collaboration With a High-Payload Robot: A Framework Integrating Novel Hardware and Software Modules	3
Humans and the Environment [From the Editor’s Desk]	3
Museum Touring Through an Augmented Reality-Enhanced Robotic Assistant: Improving Learnability and Memory Retention	3
Agriculture Is a Big Topic: How Can Robots Help? [From the Editor’s Desk]	3
2023 Index IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine Vol.30	3
FEA-Based Inverse Kinematic Control: Hyperelastic Material Characterization of Self-Healing Soft Robots	3
Call for Papers [Society News]	3
IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine Welcomes New Editor and Associate Editors	3
Taking the First Step Toward Autonomous Quadruped Robots: The Quadruped Robot Challenge at ICRA 2023 in London [Competitions]	2
RAM Calendar for December 2023 issue	2
Table of Contents	2
Humanoid Robotics: Integrating Cognitive and Physical Abilities for Human-Centered Environments [From the Guest Editors]	2
ArmAssist: A Telerehabilitation Solution for Upper-Limb Rehabilitation at Home	2
Embodied Artificial Intelligence for a Symbiotic Society: A Recap of IROS 2022 in Kyoto, Japan [Society News]	2
Reconnecting the Diverse Community [From the Editor’s Desk]	2
Calendar	2
Proof of Work Is a Stigmergic Consensus Algorithm: Unlocking Its Potential	2
IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine Call for Papers Special Issue on Marine Robots	2
Masthead	2
Reviewing the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society’s Growth and Success the Past Two Years [President’s Message]	2
Front Cover	2
Design and Control of the Humanoid Robot COMAN+: Hardware Capabilities and Software Implementations	1
Robotics Ad	1
IEEE Transactions on Field Robotics: A Dedicated Venue for High-Impact Field Robotics Research [Society News]	1
Integrating Software-Less Reflex Mechanisms Into Soft Robots and a Versatile Gripper: A New Bistable Method	1
The Education of a Roboticist [President’s Message]	1

IEEE Moving filler	1
The World’s Best Robots Guide Just Got Better!	1
The Franka Emika Robot: A Standard Platform in Robotics Research [Survey]	1
Terrain-Adaptive Locomotion Control for an Underwater Hexapod Robot: Sensing Leg–Terrain Interaction With Proprioceptive Sensors	1
The Open Stack of Tasks Library: OpenSoT: A Software Dedicated to Hierarchical Whole-Body Control of Robots Subject to Constraints	1
Calendar	1
Call for Applications: IEEE/IFR Innovation and Entrepreneurship Award for Outstanding Achievements in Commercializing Innovative and Automation Technology [Society News]	1
2025 RAS AdCom Election: Call for Nominations	1
Enabling Homecare With Robotic Technologies [From the Guest Editors]	1
The Next Generation of Robotics: The 2023 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems in Detroit, MI, USA [Conference Highlights]	1
IEEE RAS Membership	1
The IEEE Robotics and Automation Award [Society News]	1
Harnessing Robotics for European Union Forest Habitats Monitoring: Toward a Robotic-Assisted Framework for Standardized Field Surveys	1
Survey of Simulators for Aerial Robots: An Overview and In-Depth Systematic Comparisons [Survey]	1
IEEE App	1
Masthead	1
2025 RAS AdCom Election Results	1
IEEE Proceedings	1
[Calendar]	1
Table of Contents	1
Field Robot for High-Throughput and High-Resolution 3D Plant Phenotyping: Towards Efficient and Sustainable Crop Production	1
Autonomous Ground Navigation in Highly Constrained Spaces: Lessons Learned From the Benchmark Autonomous Robot Navigation Challenge at ICRA 2022 [Competitions]	1
Machine Learning for Industry 4.0 [From the Guest Editors]	0
The Present and the Future of Cognitive Robotics [TC Spotlight]	0
Testing Gecko-Inspired Adhesives With Astrobee Aboard the International Space Station: Readying the Technology for Space	0
Deadline for RAS Local Chapter Initiative Grants [Society News]	0
2024 IERA Award: Realtime Robotics Awarded for Optimization Tool [Industry Activities]	0
The IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Announces Its Newly Elected 2023 AdCom Members [Society News]	0
Deadline for RAS Local Chapter Initiative Grants	0
A Tale of Two Rovers: How Different Philosophies Foster Innovation in the 2023 University Rover Challenge [Competitions]	0
Spatial Computing and Intuitive Interaction: Bringing Mixed Reality and Robotics Together	0
In Memoriam: George A. Bekey (1928–2024) [Society News]	0
Call For Proposals: 2023 RAS Technical Education Programs	0
Intelligent Blockchain-Enabled Communication and Services: Solutions for Moving Internet of Things Devices	0
Simulation to Real: Learning Energy-Efficient Slithering Gaits for a Snake-Like Robot	0
Women in Robotics: Insights Into the First International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems in the Middle East [Women in Engineering]	0
We Are Not There Yet: Why Is Humanoid Robotics Hard? [From the Editor’s Desk]	0
RAS Congratulates Our Recently Elevated Senior Members	0
Attention RAS Chapters - The RAS Distinguished Lecturer Program is Revised and Enhanced	0
When Robots Meet Artificial Intelligence: Let’s Do Better to Gain People’s Trust [From the Editor’s Desk]	0
Learning Fast and Precise Pixel-to-Torque Control: A Platform for Reproducible Research of Learning on Hardware	0
The $10 Million ANA Avatar XPRIZE Competition: How It Advanced Immersive Telepresence Systems	0
IEEE Launches New Study Group for Humanoids to Explore Current Standards Landscape and Develop Future Standards Roadmap [Standards]	0
Calendar	0
A Study on the Dexterity of Surgical Robotic Tools in a Highly Immersive Virtual Environment: Assessing Usability and Efficacy	0
Bridging Ethics and Reality: Integrating Thought Experiments and Empirical Insights in Robot Ethics	0
Call for IEEE Fellow Nominations, Class of 2025	0
IEEE Collabratec	0
The Robotic Circulating Nurse	0
An Unmanned Surface Vehicle for the Launch and Recovery of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles: A Novel Design	0
RAM Calendar- for March 2025 issue	0
Metrics for 3D Object Pointing and Manipulation in Virtual Reality: The Introduction and Validation of a Novel Approach in Measuring Human Performance	0
Front Cover	0
Table of Contents	0
IEEE Feedback	0
[Calendar]	0
A Tool for Organizing Key Characteristics of Virtual, Augmented, and Mixed Reality for Human–Robot Interaction Systems: Synthesizing VAM-HRI Trends and Takeaways	0
Augmented Reality and Human–Robot Collaboration Framework for Percutaneous Nephrolithotomy: System Design, Implementation, and Performance Metrics	0
A Continuum Robot for Remote Applications: From Industrial to Medical Surgery With Slender Continuum Robots	0
WaterFormer: A Global–Local Transformer for Underwater Image Enhancement With Environment Adaptor	0
IEEE RAS Congratulates Recently Elevated Senior Members	0
Deep Predictive Model Learning With Parametric Bias: Handling Modeling Difficulties and Temporal Model Changes	0
IEEE RAS Join	0
IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Launches a Science and Technology Watch Board [President’s Message]	0
A Robotic System for Transanal Endoscopic Microsurgery: Design, Dexterity Optimization, and Prototyping	0
IEEE Access	0
IDEA: A New Initiative to Foster Diversity and Inclusion in the Robotics and Automation Society [Women in Engineering]	0
RAM Welcomes Nine New Associate Editors [Society News]	0
Deadline for RAS Local Chapter Initiative Grants [Society News]	0
New IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Standards Study Group on Service Robotics [Standards]	0
Open Robot Hardware: Progress, Benefits, Challenges, and Best Practices	0
Biomimetic Perception, Cognition, and Control: From Nature to Robots [From the Guest Editors]	0
Dual-Arm Control for Coordinated Fast Grabbing and Tossing of an Object: Proposing a New Approach	0
Upcoming Conferences	0
I-CTRL: Imitation to Control Humanoid Robots Through Bounded Residual Reinforcement Learning	0
The Value of Diversity in the Robotics and Automation Society [Women in Engineering]	0
Welcome New IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Chapters [Society News]	0
IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Congratulates Recently Elevated Senior Members [Society News]	0
Get Published in IEEE Robotics and Automation Practice	0
Caveats on the First-Generation da Vinci Research Kit: Latent Technical Constraints and Essential Calibrations [Survey]	0
Autonomous Robotic Surgical Systems: Needing Common Sense to Achieve Higher Levels of Autonomy [Opinion]	0
Open Source Dual-Purpose Acrobot and Pendubot Platform: Benchmarking Control Algorithms for Underactuated Robotics	0
Proactive Robot Assistance: Affordance-Aware Augmented Reality User Interfaces	0
Responsible Service Robots: Navigating Ethical and Legal Challenges in Cities	0
A Multimodal Fusion Model for Estimating Human Hand Force: Comparing surface electromyography and ultrasound signals	0
Autonomous Mario Kart in the Wild: Lessons Learned From the Earth Rover Challenge at IROS 2024 [Competitions]	0
New Impact Factor, New Promises: Never a Better Time for Robotics and Automation [From the Editor’s Desk]	0
2024 Index IEEE Robotics&Automation Magazine Vol. 31	0
The RAS Women in Engineering Committee in Conversation With RAS President Aude Billard [President’s Message]	0
IEEE App	0
Responsible Roboticists [From the Editor’s Desk]	0
Robotics and Automation Practice [President’s Message]	0
Making an Opportunity Out of a Crisis: The Inclusive Approach of the Italian Robotics Community	0
Masthead	0
Robot of the Month - DEX-EE	0