Soft Robotics

Papers
(The H4-Index of Soft Robotics is 35. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Design and Control of Lightweight Bionic Arm Driven by Soft Twisted and Coiled Artificial Muscles139
Multi-Degree-of-Freedom Force Sensor Incorporated into Soft Robotic Gripper for Improved Grasping Stability126
Frictional Anisotropic Locomotion and Adaptive Neural Control for a Soft Crawling Robot90
Steering Muscle-Based Bio-Syncretic Robot Through Bionic Optimized Biped Mechanical Design88
Magnetic Soft Catheter Robot System for Minimally Invasive Treatments of Articular Cartilage Defects84
Shape Reconstruction of Extensible Continuum Manipulator Based on Soft Sensors82
A Soft Amphibious Turtle Robot with Flexibility and Omnidirectional Motion Ability Actuated by Multiple Bionic Muscles82
YoMo: Yoshimura Continuum Manipulator for MR Environment80
Twisting and Braiding Fluid-Driven Soft Artificial Muscle Fibers for Robotic Applications75
Model-Based 3D Shape Reconstruction of Soft Robots via Distributed Strain Sensing74
Optimal Control of Dielectric Elastomer Actuated Multibody Dynamical Systems74
Soft Tubular-Surface Rolling Robots72
Advancing Soft Robot Proprioception Through 6D Strain Sensors Embedding67
Stiffness Tunable Magnetic Actuators Based on Shape Memory Polymer/NdFeB Composite for Segmental Controllable Motion66
A Collaborative Flipping Continuum Wall-Climbing Robot with Integrated Drive and Function64
Chemically Driven Oscillating Soft Pneumatic Actuation62
Biomimetic Octopus Suction Cup with Attachment Force Self-Sensing Capability for Cardiac Adhesion54
Human-Inspired Tactile Perception System for Real-Time and Multimodal Detection of Tactile Stimuli52
Double-Layer Self-Locking Origami Based on Opposite Folding Motion49
ZodiAq: An Isotropic Flagella-Inspired Soft Underwater Drone for Safe Marine Exploration49
Harnessing Liquid Crystal Elastomers for Locomotion and Mechanical Intelligence in a Soft Robot49
Thermo-Pneumatic Artificial Muscle: Air-Based Thermo-Pneumatic Artificial Muscles for Pumpless Pneumatic Actuation46
A Passively Conforming Soft Robotic Gripper with Three-Dimensional Negative Bending Stiffness Fingers44
A Variable Stiffness Soft Gripper Based on Rotational Layer Jamming44
Origami Actuator with Tunable Limiting Layer for Morphological Adaptive Soft Robots42
Selaginella lepidophylla -Inspired Multi-Stimulus Cooperative Control MXene-Based Flexible Actuator41
Improvement of Precision Grasping Performance by Interaction Between Soft Finger Pulp and Hard Nail41
A Dual-Modal Hybrid Gripper with Wide Tunable Contact Stiffness Range and High Compliance for Adaptive and Wide-Range Grasping Objects with Diverse Fragilities40
Hygromachines: Humidity-Powered Wheels, Seesaws, and Vehicles40
Magnetic Liquid Metal Droplet Robot with Multifunction and High Output Force in Milli-Newton40
Ultrastable Soft Capacitive Tactile Sensor with Impedance-Modulated Signal40
A Variable Stiffness Bioinspired Swallowing Gripper Based on Particle Jamming39
A Holistic Indirect Contact Identification Method for Soft Robot Proprioception38
SoftSnap: Rapid Prototyping of Untethered Soft Robots Using Snap-Together Modules36
Toward Onboard Proportional Control of Multi-Chamber Soft Pneumatic Robots: A Magnetorheological Elastomer Valve Array35
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