OOIR: Observatory of International Research

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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
A Soft Amphibious Turtle Robot with Flexibility and Omnidirectional Motion Ability Actuated by Multiple Bionic Muscles	122
Twisting and Braiding Fluid-Driven Soft Artificial Muscle Fibers for Robotic Applications	118
Frictional Anisotropic Locomotion and Adaptive Neural Control for a Soft Crawling Robot	104
YoMo: Yoshimura Continuum Manipulator for MR Environment	103
Shape Reconstruction of Extensible Continuum Manipulator Based on Soft Sensors	101
Magnetic Soft Catheter Robot System for Minimally Invasive Treatments of Articular Cartilage Defects	100
Model-Based 3D Shape Reconstruction of Soft Robots via Distributed Strain Sensing	72
Steering Muscle-Based Bio-Syncretic Robot Through Bionic Optimized Biped Mechanical Design	72
Design and Control of Lightweight Bionic Arm Driven by Soft Twisted and Coiled Artificial Muscles	71
Bioinspired, Shape-Morphing Scale Battery for Untethered Soft Robots	68
Soft Tubular-Surface Rolling Robots	67
Soft Robotic Perspective and Concept for Planetary Small Body Exploration	67
Multi-Degree-of-Freedom Force Sensor Incorporated into Soft Robotic Gripper for Improved Grasping Stability	67
An Untethered Soft Robot Based on Liquid Crystal Elastomers	67
Stiffness Tunable Magnetic Actuators Based on Shape Memory Polymer/NdFeB Composite for Segmental Controllable Motion	66
ZodiAq: An Isotropic Flagella-Inspired Soft Underwater Drone for Safe Marine Exploration	65
Human-Inspired Tactile Perception System for Real-Time and Multimodal Detection of Tactile Stimuli	63
Mechanics and Morphological Compensation Strategy for Trimmed Soft Whisker Sensor	62
Skeletonizing the Dynamics of Soft Continuum Body from Video	62
Nanotextured Soft Electrothermo-Pneumatic Actuator for Constructing Lightweight, Integrated, and Untethered Soft Robotics	60
Harnessing Liquid Crystal Elastomers for Locomotion and Mechanical Intelligence in a Soft Robot	57
Optimal Control of Dielectric Elastomer Actuated Multibody Dynamical Systems	57
Stiffness Preprogrammable Soft Bending Pneumatic Actuators for High-Efficient, Conformal Operation	56
Biomimetic Octopus Suction Cup with Attachment Force Self-Sensing Capability for Cardiac Adhesion	55
Double-Layer Self-Locking Origami Based on Opposite Folding Motion	53

Advancing Soft Robot Proprioception Through 6D Strain Sensors Embedding	53
Chemically Driven Oscillating Soft Pneumatic Actuation	52
Unfolding Textile-Based Pneumatic Actuators for Wearable Applications	52
Thermo-Pneumatic Artificial Muscle: Air-Based Thermo-Pneumatic Artificial Muscles for Pumpless Pneumatic Actuation	50
A Dual-Modal Hybrid Gripper with Wide Tunable Contact Stiffness Range and High Compliance for Adaptive and Wide-Range Grasping Objects with Diverse Fragilities	49
A Variable Stiffness Bioinspired Swallowing Gripper Based on Particle Jamming	46
Hygromachines: Humidity-Powered Wheels, Seesaws, and Vehicles	44
A Passively Conforming Soft Robotic Gripper with Three-Dimensional Negative Bending Stiffness Fingers	44
Selaginella lepidophylla -Inspired Multi-Stimulus Cooperative Control MXene-Based Flexible Actuator	44
Magnetic Liquid Metal Droplet Robot with Multifunction and High Output Force in Milli-Newton	44
Improvement of Precision Grasping Performance by Interaction Between Soft Finger Pulp and Hard Nail	44
A Variable Stiffness Soft Gripper Based on Rotational Layer Jamming	42
Origami Actuator with Tunable Limiting Layer for Morphological Adaptive Soft Robots	41
Far-Field Magnetic Sensing on Soft Origami Actuator for Spatial Multidimensional Movement and Force Perception	40