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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Ajna: Generalized deep uncertainty for minimal perception on parsimonious robots	794
By the time we build robots that care for us, will we be able to care for them?	484
Early science fiction got microbots surprisingly right	361
Ted Chiang imagines a computational theory of robots	348
The cold truth about robotics research in the United Kingdom as a Caribbean woman	278
The greatest challenge for prosthetics may be social, not neural, connections	257
High-speed control and navigation for quadrupedal robots on complex and discrete terrain	230
Coordinated behavior of autonomous microscopic machines through local electronic pulse coupling	227
Robotic assistive technologies get more personal	213
Culturally competent social robots target inclusion in Africa	211
Coherent, super-resolved radar beamforming using self-supervised learning	171
Monte Carlo tree search with spectral expansion for planning with dynamical systems	170
From motor control to team play in simulated humanoid football	163
Wireless flow-powered miniature robot capable of traversing tubular structures	156
Morphological computation and decentralized learning in a swarm of sterically interacting robots	154
Biohybrid microrobots regulate colonic cytokines and the epithelium barrier in inflammatory bowel disease	147
The role of user preference in the customized control of robotic exoskeletons	139
Shape morphing mechanical metamaterials through reversible plasticity	139
Reversible kink instability drives ultrafast jumping in nematodes and soft robots	139
The neuromechanics of animal locomotion: From biology to robotics and back	134
Autonomous tracking of honey bee behaviors over long-term periods with cooperating robots	132
Wearable robots for the real world need vision	129
Adaptive active solids	120
Advancing physical intelligence for autonomous soft robots	116
Embodied aerial physical interaction: Combining body and brain for robust interaction with unstructured environments	113

Toward self-contained bidirectional bionic limbs with high information throughput	110
Neglected physical human-robot interaction may explain variable outcomes in gait neurorehabilitation research	108
Achieving animal endurance in robots through advanced energy storage	107
Crawling, climbing, perching, and flying by FiBa soft robots	105
Surmounting the ceiling effect of motor expertise by novel sensory experience with a hand exoskeleton	100
Modular reconfiguration of DNA origami assemblies using tile displacement	99
Remote control of muscle-driven miniature robots with battery-free wireless optoelectronics	99
Merging motoneuron and postural synergies in prosthetic hand design for natural bionic interfacing	98
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 .	95
Virus-blocking mosquitoes take flight in the fight against dengue	95
The role of low-cost robots in the future of spaceflight	94
Robotically steerable guidewires—Current trends and future directions	90
Neural prosthesis control restores near-normative neuromechanics in standing postural control	86
Excitation of natural spinal reflex loops in the sensory-motor control of hand prostheses	86
Magnetically actuated gearbox for the wireless control of millimeter-scale robots	84
A bioinspired revolving-wing drone with passive attitude stability and efficient hovering flight	84
AI search, physician removal: Bronchoscopy robot bridges collaboration in foreign body aspiration	82
Representation granularity enables time-efficient autonomous exploration in large, complex worlds	81
MOGrip: Gripper for multiobject grasping in pick-and-place tasks using translational movements of fingers	79
Light-driven carbon nitride microswimmers with propulsion in biological and ionic media and responsive on-demand drug delivery	78
A pipeline inspection robot for navigating tubular environments in the sub-centimeter scale	77
Effect of hip abduction assistance on metabolic cost and balance during human walking	74
Head-mounted surgical robots are an enabling technology for subretinal injections	73
Reconfigurable self-assembled DNA devices	73
Assistive robotics should seamlessly integrate humans and robots	69
High-tech guardians: Robotics at the heart of the Future Circular Collider	69
Understanding humanoid robots could save your life	68
OpenExo: An open-source modular exoskeleton to augment human function	67
A sound approach to improving exoskeletons and exosuits	65
Bioinspired designer DNA NanoGripper for virus sensing and potential inhibition	64
Learning garment manipulation policies toward robot-assisted dressing	64
Tracking and navigation of a microswarm under laser speckle contrast imaging for targeted delivery	63
Unlocking aerobatic potential of quadcopters: Autonomous freestyle flight generation and execution	62
A robotic honeycomb for interaction with a honeybee colony	61
A decade retrospective of medical robotics research from 2010 to 2020	60
Ultralight, strong, and self-reprogrammable mechanical metamaterials	58
Increasing the payload capacity of soft robot arms by localized stiffening	58
Abyssal Benthic Rover, an autonomous vehicle for long-term monitoring of deep-ocean processes	58
Autonomous boat navigation in the real world	56
It is hard to be a robot in the wild	55
Clearing away barriers to oral drug delivery	55
Would you risk humanity’s survival on a robot built in two years?	55
Teaching robots the art of human social synchrony	54
Soft robotic artificial left ventricle simulator capable of reproducing myocardial biomechanics	54
A hyperelastic torque-reversal mechanism for soft joints with compression-responsive transient bistability	54
Light-powered soft steam engines for self-adaptive oscillation and biomimetic swimming	53
A meta-analysis on the effectiveness of anthropomorphism in human-robot interaction	52
Explosion-powered eversible tactile displays	52
Enhancing social connectedness with companion robots using AI	51
Learning high-speed flight in the wild	51

Acrobatics at the insect scale: A durable, precise, and agile micro–aerial robot	50
The force has limits: Molecular motors in robotics	50
Magnetic robots make headway in medicine	48
Tracking hand movements with a smart glove	47
AI-driven aerial robots advance whale research	47
Development of compositionality through interactive learning of language and action of robots	46
Five years of Science Robotics	46
Robotic end-to-end fusion of microtubules powered by kinesin	45
Autonomous surface sampling for the Europa Lander mission concept	45
Visual-inertial hand motion tracking with robustness against occlusion, interference, and contact	44
Knowledge before faith is the motto of a robot pope	44
Surgical embodied intelligence for generalized task autonomy in laparoscopic robot-assisted surgery	44
Robotic manipulation of cardiomyocytes to identify gap junction modifiers for arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy	43
Neuroprosthesis converts brain activity to speech	43
How much initiative should a service robot have?	43
Self-organizing nervous systems for robot swarms	43
Hexagonal electrohydraulic modules for rapidly reconfigurable high-speed robots	42
Bot self-destruction memes are no laughing matter in science fiction	42
Good old-fashioned engineering can close the 100,000-year “data gap” in robotics	40
Float like a butterfly, swim like a biohybrid neuromuscular robot	40
Solar-powered shape-changing origami microfliers	39
A retrospective of Isaac Asimov at 102 and his Three Laws	39
Estimating human joint moments unifies exoskeleton control, reducing user effort	39
Light-emitting, self-healing robotic fibers	38
Visual route following for tiny autonomous robots	37
Bilateral Back Extensor Exosuit for multidimensional assistance and prevention of spinal injuries	37
Insect-inspired AI for autonomous robots	36
Robot therapy pets get a starring role in Lightyear and in real life	36
Biohybrid hand actuated by multiple human muscle tissues	35
Equalizing access: How robotics and AI can transform surgical care worldwide	35
User preference optimization for control of ankle exoskeletons using sample efficient active learning	34
Remote magnetic navigation enables precision telesurgery	34
Cooperative robotic exploration of a planetary skylight surface and lava cave	34
Dexterous helical magnetic robot for improved endovascular access	34
Microscopic robots with onboard digital control	34
Preventing pressure ulcers by increasing pressure: An unorthodox alternating-pressure mattress	33
Restoration of tactile sensation in bionic hands	33
The original “I, Robot” featured a murderous robot and the Frankenstein complex	33
Animal robots in the African wilderness: Lessons learned and outlook for field robotics	33