OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Soft Robotics is 37. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 500 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2019-08-01 to 2023-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Soft Robotics in Minimally Invasive Surgery	243
Octopus Arm-Inspired Tapered Soft Actuators with Suckers for Improved Grasping	128
A Geometrically Exact Model for Soft Continuum Robots: The Finite Element Deformation Space Formulation	119
Magnetically Actuated Soft Capsule Endoscope for Fine-Needle Biopsy	101
Fully Wearable Actuated Soft Exoskeleton for Grasping Assistance in Everyday Activities	91
Toward a Common Framework and Database of Materials for Soft Robotics	89
A Fully Multi-Material Three-Dimensional Printed Soft Gripper with Variable Stiffness for Robust Grasping	88
Closed-Loop Haptic Feedback Control Using a Self-Sensing Soft Pneumatic Actuator Skin	82
Fluidic Fabric Muscle Sheets for Wearable and Soft Robotics	82
A Versatile Soft Crawling Robot with Rapid Locomotion	79
Novel Bending and Helical Extensile/Contractile Pneumatic Artificial Muscles Inspired by Elephant Trunk	74
Fiber Optic Shape Sensing for Soft Robotics	73
Hybrid Jamming for Bioinspired Soft Robotic Fingers	72
A Wearable Soft Haptic Communicator Based on Dielectric Elastomer Actuators	72
Bioinspired Three-Dimensional-Printed Helical Soft Pneumatic Actuators and Their Characterization	71
Soft Rod-Climbing Robot Inspired by Winding Locomotion of Snake	71
Design, Modeling, and Evaluation of Fabric-Based Pneumatic Actuators for Soft Wearable Assistive Gloves	60
Shape Memory Alloy-Based Soft Finger with Changeable Bending Length Using Targeted Variable Stiffness	57
Fabrication and Dynamic Modeling of Bidirectional Bending Soft Actuator Integrated with Optical Waveguide Curvature Sensor	55
MakeSense: Automated Sensor Design for Proprioceptive Soft Robots	54
Electrohydraulic Actuator for a Soft Gripper	51
An Origami Continuum Robot Capable of Precise Motion Through Torsionally Stiff Body and Smooth Inverse Kinematics	49
A Machine-Learning-Based Approach to Solve Both Contact Location and Force in Soft Material Tactile Sensors	49
Harnessing Viscous Flow to Simplify the Actuation of Fluidic Soft Robots	48
Sensorized, Flat, Pneumatic Artificial Muscle Embedded with Biomimetic Microfluidic Sensors for Proprioceptive Feedback	46

Swimming Performance of a Tensegrity Robotic Fish	46
Soft Robots for Ocean Exploration and Offshore Operations: A Perspective	43
Additive Manufacturing for Self-Healing Soft Robots	42
Adaptive Variable Stiffness Particle Phalange for Robust and Durable Robotic Grasping	41
On Planar Discrete Elastic Rod Models for the Locomotion of Soft Robots	39
Pneumatically Actuated Soft Gripper with Bistable Structures	39
Swimming Performance of the Frog-Inspired Soft Robot	39
Interfacing Soft and Hard: A Spring Reinforced Actuator	39
Twisted-and-Coiled Actuators with Free Strokes Enable Soft Robots with Programmable Motions	38
MagWorm: A Biomimetic Magnet Embedded Worm-Like Soft Robot	38
Modal-Based Kinematics and Contact Detection of Soft Robots	38
Bio-Inspired Shape-Adaptive Soft Robotic Grippers Augmented with Electroadhesion Functionality	38
Laser-Profiled Continuum Robot with Integrated Tension Sensing for Simultaneous Shape and Tip Force Estimation	37
Soft and Fast Hopping–Running Robot with Speed of Six Times Its Body Length Per Second	37