OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Soft Robotics is 38. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Octopus Arm-Inspired Tapered Soft Actuators with Suckers for Improved Grasping	172
Toward a Common Framework and Database of Materials for Soft Robotics	152
Fully Wearable Actuated Soft Exoskeleton for Grasping Assistance in Everyday Activities	116
Soft Rod-Climbing Robot Inspired by Winding Locomotion of Snake	110
Fluidic Fabric Muscle Sheets for Wearable and Soft Robotics	97
A Wearable Soft Haptic Communicator Based on Dielectric Elastomer Actuators	94
Hybrid Jamming for Bioinspired Soft Robotic Fingers	94
Novel Bending and Helical Extensile/Contractile Pneumatic Artificial Muscles Inspired by Elephant Trunk	92
Bioinspired Three-Dimensional-Printed Helical Soft Pneumatic Actuators and Their Characterization	90
Shape Memory Alloy-Based Soft Finger with Changeable Bending Length Using Targeted Variable Stiffness	81
Design, Modeling, and Evaluation of Fabric-Based Pneumatic Actuators for Soft Wearable Assistive Gloves	78
MakeSense: Automated Sensor Design for Proprioceptive Soft Robots	70
An Origami Continuum Robot Capable of Precise Motion Through Torsionally Stiff Body and Smooth Inverse Kinematics	68
A Machine-Learning-Based Approach to Solve Both Contact Location and Force in Soft Material Tactile Sensors	64
Soft Robots for Ocean Exploration and Offshore Operations: A Perspective	63
MagWorm: A Biomimetic Magnet Embedded Worm-Like Soft Robot	61
Adaptive Variable Stiffness Particle Phalange for Robust and Durable Robotic Grasping	59
Swimming Performance of the Frog-Inspired Soft Robot	58
Additive Manufacturing for Self-Healing Soft Robots	56
Pneumatically Actuated Soft Gripper with Bistable Structures	55
Patient-Specific Magnetic Catheters for Atraumatic Autonomous Endoscopy	52
Laser-Profiled Continuum Robot with Integrated Tension Sensing for Simultaneous Shape and Tip Force Estimation	52
Harnessing the Multistability of Kresling Origami for Reconfigurable Articulation in Soft Robotic Arms	52
Twisted-and-Coiled Actuators with Free Strokes Enable Soft Robots with Programmable Motions	50
Modal-Based Kinematics and Contact Detection of Soft Robots	49

A Super-Lightweight and Soft Manipulator Driven by Dielectric Elastomers	49
Variable Stiffness Devices Using Fiber Jamming for Application in Soft Robotics and Wearable Haptics	49
Circular Shell Gripper for Handling Food Products	48
Tensegrity Robotics	46
Body Wave Generation for Anguilliform Locomotion Using a Fiber-Reinforced Soft Fluidic Elastomer Actuator Array Toward the Development of the Eel-Inspired Underwater Soft Robot	45
Rolling Locomotion of Cable-Driven Soft Spherical Tensegrity Robots	45
Fiber Jamming Transition as a Stiffening Mechanism for Soft Robotics	45
Multimode Grasping Soft Gripper Achieved by Layer Jamming Structure and Tendon-Driven Mechanism	43
Soft Humanoid Hands with Large Grasping Force Enabled by Flexible Hybrid Pneumatic Actuators	43
Analytical Modeling and Design of Generalized Pneu-Net Soft Actuators with Three-Dimensional Deformations	41
An Underwater Robotic Manipulator with Soft Bladders and Compact Depth-Independent Actuation	41
Untethered Soft Robotics with Fully Integrated Wireless Sensing and Actuating Systems for Somatosensory and Respiratory Functions	40
Phase Changing Materials-Based Variable-Stiffness Tensegrity Structures	40
A Layer Jamming Actuator for Tunable Stiffness and Shape-Changing Devices	38