Soft Robotics

Papers
(The H4-Index of Soft Robotics is 39. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
ArticleCitations
Shape Reconstruction of Extensible Continuum Manipulator Based on Soft Sensors132
Steering Muscle-Based Bio-Syncretic Robot Through Bionic Optimized Biped Mechanical Design112
YoMo: Yoshimura Continuum Manipulator for MR Environment99
Model-Based 3D Shape Reconstruction of Soft Robots via Distributed Strain Sensing99
Frictional Anisotropic Locomotion and Adaptive Neural Control for a Soft Crawling Robot94
Soft Robotic Perspective and Concept for Planetary Small Body Exploration92
Design and Control of Lightweight Bionic Arm Driven by Soft Twisted and Coiled Artificial Muscles89
Bioinspired, Shape-Morphing Scale Battery for Untethered Soft Robots86
An Untethered Soft Robot Based on Liquid Crystal Elastomers70
Multi-Degree-of-Freedom Force Sensor Incorporated into Soft Robotic Gripper for Improved Grasping Stability68
Magnetic Soft Catheter Robot System for Minimally Invasive Treatments of Articular Cartilage Defects64
Twisting and Braiding Fluid-Driven Soft Artificial Muscle Fibers for Robotic Applications62
Stiffness Tunable Magnetic Actuators Based on Shape Memory Polymer/NdFeB Composite for Segmental Controllable Motion61
Mechanics and Morphological Compensation Strategy for Trimmed Soft Whisker Sensor61
Chemically Driven Oscillating Soft Pneumatic Actuation60
ZodiAq: An Isotropic Flagella-Inspired Soft Underwater Drone for Safe Marine Exploration60
Advancing Soft Robot Proprioception Through 6D Strain Sensors Embedding59
Stiffness Preprogrammable Soft Bending Pneumatic Actuators for High-Efficient, Conformal Operation58
Unfolding Textile-Based Pneumatic Actuators for Wearable Applications58
Human-Inspired Tactile Perception System for Real-Time and Multimodal Detection of Tactile Stimuli57
Skeletonizing the Dynamics of Soft Continuum Body from Video56
Optimal Control of Dielectric Elastomer Actuated Multibody Dynamical Systems56
Biomimetic Octopus Suction Cup with Attachment Force Self-Sensing Capability for Cardiac Adhesion52
Harnessing Liquid Crystal Elastomers for Locomotion and Mechanical Intelligence in a Soft Robot51
Nanotextured Soft Electrothermo-Pneumatic Actuator for Constructing Lightweight, Integrated, and Untethered Soft Robotics50
Performance Enhancement of Soft Nanotextured Thermopneumatic Actuator by Incorporating Silver Nanowires into Elastomer Body49
A Dual-Modal Hybrid Gripper with Wide Tunable Contact Stiffness Range and High Compliance for Adaptive and Wide-Range Grasping Objects with Diverse Fragilities49
Magnetic Liquid Metal Droplet Robot with Multifunction and High Output Force in Milli-Newton48
Selaginella lepidophylla-Inspired Multi-Stimulus Cooperative Control MXene-Based Flexible Actuator48
Hygromachines: Humidity-Powered Wheels, Seesaws, and Vehicles47
Thermo-Pneumatic Artificial Muscle: Air-Based Thermo-Pneumatic Artificial Muscles for Pumpless Pneumatic Actuation47
A Passively Conforming Soft Robotic Gripper with Three-Dimensional Negative Bending Stiffness Fingers46
Improvement of Precision Grasping Performance by Interaction Between Soft Finger Pulp and Hard Nail45
A Variable Stiffness Bioinspired Swallowing Gripper Based on Particle Jamming44
A Variable Stiffness Soft Gripper Based on Rotational Layer Jamming43
Biological Robots: Perspectives on an Emerging Interdisciplinary Field42
A Biomimetic Adhesive Disc for Robotic Adhesion Sliding Inspired by the Net-Winged Midge Larva41
Ultralow Voltage High-Performance Nanocellulose-Based Electro-Ionic Actuators for Soft Robots40
SoftSnap: Rapid Prototyping of Untethered Soft Robots Using Snap-Together Modules39
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