OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Science Robotics is 36. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Ajna: Generalized deep uncertainty for minimal perception on parsimonious robots	912
Biohybrid microrobots regulate colonic cytokines and the epithelium barrier in inflammatory bowel disease	551
Culturally competent social robots target inclusion in Africa	392
Early science fiction got microbots surprisingly right	379
Ted Chiang imagines a computational theory of robots	302
The cold truth about robotics research in the United Kingdom as a Caribbean woman	268
The greatest challenge for prosthetics may be social, not neural, connections	257
Coordinated behavior of autonomous microscopic machines through local electronic pulse coupling	229
Morphological computation and decentralized learning in a swarm of sterically interacting robots	224
From motor control to team play in simulated humanoid football	190
High-speed control and navigation for quadrupedal robots on complex and discrete terrain	179
Monte Carlo tree search with spectral expansion for planning with dynamical systems	175
Robotic assistive technologies get more personal	171
Coherent, super-resolved radar beamforming using self-supervised learning	163
The role of user preference in the customized control of robotic exoskeletons	158
Shape morphing mechanical metamaterials through reversible plasticity	158
Wireless flow-powered miniature robot capable of traversing tubular structures	142
Adaptive active solids	141
Toward self-contained bidirectional bionic limbs with high information throughput	137
Embodied aerial physical interaction: Combining body and brain for robust interaction with unstructured environments	127
Wearable robots for the real world need vision	126
Accelerating discovery in natural science laboratories with AI and robotics: Perspectives and challenges	124
Autonomous tracking of honey bee behaviors over long-term periods with cooperating robots	122
Remote control of muscle-driven miniature robots with battery-free wireless optoelectronics	119
Surmounting the ceiling effect of motor expertise by novel sensory experience with a hand exoskeleton	117

Advancing physical intelligence for autonomous soft robots	115
Crawling, climbing, perching, and flying by FiBa soft robots	113
Reversible kink instability drives ultrafast jumping in nematodes and soft robots	112
Achieving animal endurance in robots through advanced energy storage	105
Modular reconfiguration of DNA origami assemblies using tile displacement	102
The neuromechanics of animal locomotion: From biology to robotics and back	100
Virus-blocking mosquitoes take flight in the fight against dengue	99
AI search, physician removal: Bronchoscopy robot bridges collaboration in foreign body aspiration	99
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 .	98
The role of low-cost robots in the future of spaceflight	95
Merging motoneuron and postural synergies in prosthetic hand design for natural bionic interfacing	95
Optogenetic neuromuscular actuation of a miniature electronic biohybrid robot	95
Magnetically actuated gearbox for the wireless control of millimeter-scale robots	94
MOGrip: Gripper for multiobject grasping in pick-and-place tasks using translational movements of fingers	93
A pipeline inspection robot for navigating tubular environments in the sub-centimeter scale	88
Excitation of natural spinal reflex loops in the sensory-motor control of hand prostheses	88
Robotically steerable guidewires—Current trends and future directions	85
A bioinspired revolving-wing drone with passive attitude stability and efficient hovering flight	81
Light-driven carbon nitride microswimmers with propulsion in biological and ionic media and responsive on-demand drug delivery	81
Neural prosthesis control restores near-normative neuromechanics in standing postural control	81
Representation granularity enables time-efficient autonomous exploration in large, complex worlds	80
Reconfigurable self-assembled DNA devices	79
Head-mounted surgical robots are an enabling technology for subretinal injections	77
Assistive robotics should seamlessly integrate humans and robots	73
Understanding humanoid robots could save your life	73
High-tech guardians: Robotics at the heart of the Future Circular Collider	70
Increasing the payload capacity of soft robot arms by localized stiffening	69
A robotic honeycomb for interaction with a honeybee colony	69
A sound approach to improving exoskeletons and exosuits	69
Learning garment manipulation policies toward robot-assisted dressing	68
OpenExo: An open-source modular exoskeleton to augment human function	68
Abyssal Benthic Rover, an autonomous vehicle for long-term monitoring of deep-ocean processes	68
Unlocking aerobatic potential of quadcopters: Autonomous freestyle flight generation and execution	66
Bioinspired designer DNA NanoGripper for virus sensing and potential inhibition	64
A decade retrospective of medical robotics research from 2010 to 2020	63
Ultralight, strong, and self-reprogrammable mechanical metamaterials	61
Effect of hip abduction assistance on metabolic cost and balance during human walking	60
Tracking and navigation of a microswarm under laser speckle contrast imaging for targeted delivery	59
Teaching robots the art of human social synchrony	59
It is hard to be a robot in the wild	58
Would you risk humanity’s survival on a robot built in two years?	58
Clearing away barriers to oral drug delivery	58
Autonomous boat navigation in the real world	57
Explosion-powered eversible tactile displays	57
A hyperelastic torque-reversal mechanism for soft joints with compression-responsive transient bistability	55
Soft robotic artificial left ventricle simulator capable of reproducing myocardial biomechanics	55
Enhancing social connectedness with companion robots using AI	54
Light-powered soft steam engines for self-adaptive oscillation and biomimetic swimming	54
Autonomous surface sampling for the Europa Lander mission concept	53
Acrobatics at the insect scale: A durable, precise, and agile micro–aerial robot	53

Development of compositionality through interactive learning of language and action of robots	53
Robotic end-to-end fusion of microtubules powered by kinesin	51
The force has limits: Molecular motors in robotics	50
Five years of Science Robotics	50
AI-driven aerial robots advance whale research	50
Magnetic robots make headway in medicine	49
How can educational robots enhance family life? Through careful integration	48
Tracking hand movements with a smart glove	48
Knowledge before faith is the motto of a robot pope	47
RoboBallet: Planning for multirobot reaching with graph neural networks and reinforcement learning	47
Good old-fashioned engineering can close the 100,000-year “data gap” in robotics	47
How much initiative should a service robot have?	46
A review of learning-based dynamics models for robotic manipulation	46
Robotic manipulation of cardiomyocytes to identify gap junction modifiers for arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy	46
Neuroprosthesis converts brain activity to speech	46
Float like a butterfly, swim like a biohybrid neuromuscular robot	45
Bot self-destruction memes are no laughing matter in science fiction	45
An ingestible capsule for luminance-based diagnosis of mesenteric ischemia	44
Solar-powered shape-changing origami microfliers	43
Surgical embodied intelligence for generalized task autonomy in laparoscopic robot-assisted surgery	42
Hexagonal electrohydraulic modules for rapidly reconfigurable high-speed robots	41
Estimating human joint moments unifies exoskeleton control, reducing user effort	41
Self-organizing nervous systems for robot swarms	41
Light-emitting, self-healing robotic fibers	40
A retrospective of Isaac Asimov at 102 and his Three Laws	40
Visual route following for tiny autonomous robots	40
Cooperative robotic exploration of a planetary skylight surface and lava cave	39
Equalizing access: How robotics and AI can transform surgical care worldwide	39
Robot therapy pets get a starring role in Lightyear and in real life	39
Microscopic robots with onboard digital control	38
Remote magnetic navigation enables precision telesurgery	38
Bilateral Back Extensor Exosuit for multidimensional assistance and prevention of spinal injuries	37
Insect-inspired AI for autonomous robots	37
Dexterous helical magnetic robot for improved endovascular access	37
Biohybrid hand actuated by multiple human muscle tissues	37
Attention-based map encoding for learning generalized legged locomotion	36
Understanding brain functional architecture through robotics	36
User preference optimization for control of ankle exoskeletons using sample efficient active learning	36