OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Science Robotics is 33. 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 2020-12-01 to 2024-12-01.)

Article	Citations
Robot Operating System 2: Design, architecture, and uses in the wild	394
Learning robust perceptive locomotion for quadrupedal robots in the wild	329
Dual-responsive biohybrid neutrobots for active target delivery	313
Soft magnetic skin for super-resolution tactile sensing with force self-decoupling	280
Skin-inspired quadruple tactile sensors integrated on a robot hand enable object recognition	275
A decade retrospective of medical robotics research from 2010 to 2020	238
Electrospun liquid crystal elastomer microfiber actuator	226
Electronics-free pneumatic circuits for controlling soft-legged robots	225
Endoscopy-assisted magnetic navigation of biohybrid soft microrobots with rapid endoluminal delivery and imaging	217
Swarm of micro flying robots in the wild	211
Fast and programmable locomotion of hydrogel-metal hybrids under light and magnetic fields	203
Somatosensory actuator based on stretchable conductive photothermally responsive hydrogel	187
All-printed soft human-machine interface for robotic physicochemical sensing	175
Implicit coordination for 3D underwater collective behaviors in a fish-inspired robot swarm	171
Reflections on the future of swarm robotics	170
Voxelated three-dimensional miniature magnetic soft machines via multimaterial heterogeneous assembly	169
Telerobotic neurovascular interventions with magnetic manipulation	161
Swarming behavior and in vivo monitoring of enzymatic nanomotors within the bladder	160
Learning high-speed flight in the wild	151
Autonomous robotic laparoscopic surgery for intestinal anastomosis	147
Modeling, learning, perception, and control methods for deformable object manipulation	130
Neuro-inspired electronic skin for robots	127
Multi-expert learning of adaptive legged locomotion	127
A pipeline inspection robot for navigating tubular environments in the sub-centimeter scale	126
Heterogeneous sensing in a multifunctional soft sensor for human-robot interfaces	125

Time-optimal planning for quadrotor waypoint flight	121
Light-powered soft steam engines for self-adaptive oscillation and biomimetic swimming	115
Grasping with kirigami shells	114
Bird-inspired dynamic grasping and perching in arboreal environments	112
Electrically programmable adhesive hydrogels for climbing robots	109
Tunable stiffness enables fast and efficient swimming in fish-like robots	108
A biomimetic elastomeric robot skin using electrical impedance and acoustic tomography for tactile sensing	105
Reinforcement learning with artificial microswimmers	100
Electro-pneumatic pumps for soft robotics	100
A meta-analysis on the effectiveness of anthropomorphism in human-robot interaction	98
A cellular platform for the development of synthetic living machines	98
CERBERUS in the DARPA Subterranean Challenge	95
Hard questions for soft robotics	94
Shape morphing mechanical metamaterials through reversible plasticity	94
Controlling subterranean forces enables a fast, steerable, burrowing soft robot	93
Aerial-aquatic robots capable of crossing the air-water boundary and hitchhiking on surfaces	92
Emergence of robust self-organized undulatory swimming based on local hydrodynamic force sensing	88
Robotic hand augmentation drives changes in neural body representation	87
Neurorobotic fusion of prosthetic touch, kinesthesia, and movement in bionic upper limbs promotes intrinsic brain behaviors	86
3D printing of resilient biogels for omnidirectional and exteroceptive soft actuators	86
Electrostatic footpads enable agile insect-scale soft robots with trajectory control	84
Robotic surfaces with reversible, spatiotemporal control for shape morphing and object manipulation	83
Individualization of exosuit assistance based on measured muscle dynamics during versatile walking	83
How adaptation, training, and customization contribute to benefits from exoskeleton assistance	80
Printed synaptic transistor–based electronic skin for robots to feel and learn	78
Magnetic torque–driven living microrobots for increased tumor infiltration	77
Submillimeter-scale multimaterial terrestrial robots	77
Self-powered locomotion of a hydrogel water strider	76
Progress in robotics for combating infectious diseases	75
Biohybrid soft robots with self-stimulating skeletons	75
A bipedal walking robot that can fly, slackline, and skateboard	74
Neural-Fly enables rapid learning for agile flight in strong winds	74
Micrometer-sized electrically programmable shape-memory actuators for low-power microrobotics	73
An autonomous drone for search and rescue in forests using airborne optical sectioning	72
When less is more: Robot swarms adapt better to changes with constrained communication	70
From grasping to manipulation with gecko-inspired adhesives on a multifinger gripper	70
Soft robotic manipulator for intraoperative MRI-guided transoral laser microsurgery	69
Soft robotic steerable microcatheter for the endovascular treatment of cerebral disorders	65
Neuromorphic computing hardware and neural architectures for robotics	64
An autonomous excavator system for material loading tasks	64
Light-driven carbon nitride microswimmers with propulsion in biological and ionic media and responsive on-demand drug delivery	64
A resonant squid-inspired robot unlocks biological propulsive efficiency	63
A hybrid underwater robot for multidisciplinary investigation of the ocean twilight zone	61
Gastrointestinal tract drug delivery using algae motors embedded in a degradable capsule	58
RoboCap: Robotic mucus-clearing capsule for enhanced drug delivery in the gastrointestinal tract	56
High–load capacity origami transformable wheel	56
Agilicious: Open-source and open-hardware agile quadrotor for vision-based flight	54
Octopus-inspired sensorized soft arm for environmental interaction	54
Vital signal sensing and manipulation of a microscale organ with a multifunctional soft gripper	51
Self-reconfigurable multilegged robot swarms collectively accomplish challenging terradynamic tasks	51

3D-printed biomimetic artificial muscles using soft actuators that contract and elongate	51
Insect-inspired AI for autonomous robots	51
A microrobotic platform actuated by thermocapillary flows for manipulation at the air-water interface	50
Programmable and reprocessable multifunctional elastomeric sheets for soft origami robots	50
The role of user preference in the customized control of robotic exoskeletons	50
Toward next-generation learned robot manipulation	48
High-performance electrified hydrogel actuators based on wrinkled nanomembrane electrodes for untethered insect-scale soft aquabots	46
A lightweight robotic leg prosthesis replicating the biomechanics of the knee, ankle, and toe joint	45
BirdBot achieves energy-efficient gait with minimal control using avian-inspired leg clutching	44
Cavatappi artificial muscles from drawing, twisting, and coiling polymer tubes	44
Toward a living soft microrobot through optogenetic locomotion control of Caenorhabditis elegans	43
Efficient multitask learning with an embodied predictive model for door opening and entry with whole-body control	43
Sunlight-powered self-excited oscillators for sustainable autonomous soft robotics	43
From collections of independent, mindless robots to flexible, mobile, and directional superstructures	42
Magnetically actuated gearbox for the wireless control of millimeter-scale robots	41
Microrobotic laser steering for minimally invasive surgery	41
Mechanical neural networks: Architected materials that learn behaviors	40
Learning quadrupedal locomotion on deformable terrain	39
Neuroengineering challenges of fusing robotics and neuroscience	39
In the soft grip of nature	38
Agile and versatile climbing on ferromagnetic surfaces with a quadrupedal robot	37
Cooperative cargo transportation by a swarm of molecular machines	37
Dynamic tactility by position-encoded spike spectrum	37
Electrostatic bellow muscle actuators and energy harvesters that stack up	37
Remote control of muscle-driven miniature robots with battery-free wireless optoelectronics	37
A buckling-sheet ring oscillator for electronics-free, multimodal locomotion	36
A system of coordinated autonomous robots for Lagrangian studies of microbes in the oceanic deep chlorophyll maximum	35
In situ bidirectional human-robot value alignment	35
A 2-year locomotive exploration and scientific investigation of the lunar farside by the Yutu-2 rover	35
Microscopic robots with onboard digital control	34
Pneumatic soft robots take a step toward autonomy	34
Untethered unidirectionally crawling gels driven by asymmetry in contact forces	34
Magnetomicrometry	33
From motor control to team play in simulated humanoid football	33
Learning garment manipulation policies toward robot-assisted dressing	33
A fully implantable device for intraperitoneal drug delivery refilled by ingestible capsules	33