OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Science Robotics is 65. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Early science fiction got microbots surprisingly right	1203
Ted Chiang imagines a computational theory of robots	528
The cold truth about robotics research in the United Kingdom as a Caribbean woman	327
The greatest challenge for prosthetics may be social, not neural, connections	272
High-speed control and navigation for quadrupedal robots on complex and discrete terrain	266
Wireless flow-powered miniature robot capable of traversing tubular structures	246
Ajna: Generalized deep uncertainty for minimal perception on parsimonious robots	233
Culturally competent social robots target inclusion in Africa	219
Robot-mediated haptic feedback outperforms vision in violin duo coordination	218
Coordinated behavior of autonomous microscopic machines through local electronic pulse coupling	215
Monte Carlo tree search with spectral expansion for planning with dynamical systems	182
Biohybrid microrobots regulate colonic cytokines and the epithelium barrier in inflammatory bowel disease	182
Morphological computation and decentralized learning in a swarm of sterically interacting robots	166
From motor control to team play in simulated humanoid football	162
Adaptive active solids	161
Accelerating discovery in natural science laboratories with AI and robotics: Perspectives and challenges	146
Surmounting the ceiling effect of motor expertise by novel sensory experience with a hand exoskeleton	144
Embodied aerial physical interaction: Combining body and brain for robust interaction with unstructured environments	143
Achieving animal endurance in robots through advanced energy storage	143
A self-guided intubation device	142
Autonomous tracking of honey bee behaviors over long-term periods with cooperating robots	137
Toward self-contained bidirectional bionic limbs with high information throughput	132
Modular reconfiguration of DNA origami assemblies using tile displacement	132
The neuromechanics of animal locomotion: From biology to robotics and back	131
Reversible kink instability drives ultrafast jumping in nematodes and soft robots	126

Advancing physical intelligence for autonomous soft robots	120
Crawling, climbing, perching, and flying by FiBa soft robots	120
Remote control of muscle-driven miniature robots with battery-free wireless optoelectronics	119
Wearable robots for the real world need vision	114
Virus-blocking mosquitoes take flight in the fight against dengue	113
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	110
Robotic manipulation of human bipedalism reveals overlapping internal representations of space and time	109
Fly motion vision maximizes signal energy transfer between mechanical input and sensor output	108
A bioinspired revolving-wing drone with passive attitude stability and efficient hovering flight	104
The role of low-cost robots in the future of spaceflight	102
AI search, physician removal: Bronchoscopy robot bridges collaboration in foreign body aspiration	99
Magnetically actuated gearbox for the wireless control of millimeter-scale robots	98
Optogenetic neuromuscular actuation of a miniature electronic biohybrid robot	98
Excitation of natural spinal reflex loops in the sensory-motor control of hand prostheses	97
Neural prosthesis control restores near-normative neuromechanics in standing postural control	96
The codevelopment of soft robotics and assistive technology	95
Representation granularity enables time-efficient autonomous exploration in large, complex worlds	91
Merging motoneuron and postural synergies in prosthetic hand design for natural bionic interfacing	90
Robotically steerable guidewires—Current trends and future directions	85
A pipeline inspection robot for navigating tubular environments in the sub-centimeter scale	84
MOGrip: Gripper for multiobject grasping in pick-and-place tasks using translational movements of fingers	83
Reconfigurable self-assembled DNA devices	83
Understanding humanoid robots could save your life	83
Assistive robotics should seamlessly integrate humans and robots	78
Head-mounted surgical robots are an enabling technology for subretinal injections	77
OpenExo: An open-source modular exoskeleton to augment human function	77
High-tech guardians: Robotics at the heart of the Future Circular Collider	76
Vibrotactile feedback aids prosthesis usability	76
Ultralight, strong, and self-reprogrammable mechanical metamaterials	75
A robotic honeycomb for interaction with a honeybee colony	75
Unlocking aerobatic potential of quadcopters: Autonomous freestyle flight generation and execution	74
Effect of hip abduction assistance on metabolic cost and balance during human walking	73
Bioinspired designer DNA NanoGripper for virus sensing and potential inhibition	73
Increasing the payload capacity of soft robot arms by localized stiffening	73
Tracking and navigation of a microswarm under laser speckle contrast imaging for targeted delivery	73
It is hard to be a robot in the wild	70
Would you risk humanity’s survival on a robot built in two years?	69
Autonomous boat navigation in the real world	68
Enhancing social connectedness with companion robots using AI	68
Explosion-powered eversible tactile displays	68
Teaching robots the art of human social synchrony	65
Clearing away barriers to oral drug delivery	65