OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Science Robotics is 63. 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
Robotic assistive technologies get more personal	1020
Culturally competent social robots target inclusion in Africa	612
Early science fiction got microbots surprisingly right	453
Ted Chiang imagines a computational theory of robots	331
The cold truth about robotics research in the United Kingdom as a Caribbean woman	280
The greatest challenge for prosthetics may be social, not neural, connections	279
High-speed control and navigation for quadrupedal robots on complex and discrete terrain	243
Coordinated behavior of autonomous microscopic machines through local electronic pulse coupling	243
Wireless flow-powered miniature robot capable of traversing tubular structures	203
Ajna: Generalized deep uncertainty for minimal perception on parsimonious robots	190
From motor control to team play in simulated humanoid football	189
Biohybrid microrobots regulate colonic cytokines and the epithelium barrier in inflammatory bowel disease	183
Morphological computation and decentralized learning in a swarm of sterically interacting robots	167
Monte Carlo tree search with spectral expansion for planning with dynamical systems	162
Shape morphing mechanical metamaterials through reversible plasticity	155
The role of user preference in the customized control of robotic exoskeletons	154
Adaptive active solids	153
Toward self-contained bidirectional bionic limbs with high information throughput	144
Embodied aerial physical interaction: Combining body and brain for robust interaction with unstructured environments	131
Achieving animal endurance in robots through advanced energy storage	129
Wearable robots for the real world need vision	128
Advancing physical intelligence for autonomous soft robots	123
Surmounting the ceiling effect of motor expertise by novel sensory experience with a hand exoskeleton	121
Reversible kink instability drives ultrafast jumping in nematodes and soft robots	121
The neuromechanics of animal locomotion: From biology to robotics and back	117

Remote control of muscle-driven miniature robots with battery-free wireless optoelectronics	113
Crawling, climbing, perching, and flying by FiBa soft robots	112
Autonomous tracking of honey bee behaviors over long-term periods with cooperating robots	112
Modular reconfiguration of DNA origami assemblies using tile displacement	107
Accelerating discovery in natural science laboratories with AI and robotics: Perspectives and challenges	107
Virus-blocking mosquitoes take flight in the fight against dengue	105
Erratum for the Research Article “Restoration of grasping in an upper limb amputee using the myokinetic prosthesis with implanted magnets” by M. Gherardini et al .	104
Robotic manipulation of human bipedalism reveals overlapping internal representations of space and time	102
Magnetically actuated gearbox for the wireless control of millimeter-scale robots	101
Representation granularity enables time-efficient autonomous exploration in large, complex worlds	100
Excitation of natural spinal reflex loops in the sensory-motor control of hand prostheses	98
Robotically steerable guidewires—Current trends and future directions	96
A bioinspired revolving-wing drone with passive attitude stability and efficient hovering flight	94
Neural prosthesis control restores near-normative neuromechanics in standing postural control	91
The role of low-cost robots in the future of spaceflight	89
MOGrip: Gripper for multiobject grasping in pick-and-place tasks using translational movements of fingers	87
AI search, physician removal: Bronchoscopy robot bridges collaboration in foreign body aspiration	83
Optogenetic neuromuscular actuation of a miniature electronic biohybrid robot	82
Light-driven carbon nitride microswimmers with propulsion in biological and ionic media and responsive on-demand drug delivery	82
Merging motoneuron and postural synergies in prosthetic hand design for natural bionic interfacing	80
A pipeline inspection robot for navigating tubular environments in the sub-centimeter scale	80
OpenExo: An open-source modular exoskeleton to augment human function	79
Understanding humanoid robots could save your life	78
High-tech guardians: Robotics at the heart of the Future Circular Collider	77
Effect of hip abduction assistance on metabolic cost and balance during human walking	77
Reconfigurable self-assembled DNA devices	76
Assistive robotics should seamlessly integrate humans and robots	75
Learning garment manipulation policies toward robot-assisted dressing	75
Head-mounted surgical robots are an enabling technology for subretinal injections	73
Bioinspired designer DNA NanoGripper for virus sensing and potential inhibition	72
A robotic honeycomb for interaction with a honeybee colony	68
Increasing the payload capacity of soft robot arms by localized stiffening	67
Ultralight, strong, and self-reprogrammable mechanical metamaterials	67
Unlocking aerobatic potential of quadcopters: Autonomous freestyle flight generation and execution	66
Tracking and navigation of a microswarm under laser speckle contrast imaging for targeted delivery	66
It is hard to be a robot in the wild	65
Autonomous boat navigation in the real world	63
Would you risk humanity’s survival on a robot built in two years?	63