OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Science Robotics is 39. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 500 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2019-10-01 to 2023-10-01.)

Article	Citations
XAI—Explainable artificial intelligence	625
Combating COVID-19—The role of robotics in managing public health and infectious diseases	345
Learning quadrupedal locomotion over challenging terrain	341
Biofuel-powered soft electronic skin with multiplexed and wireless sensing for human-machine interfaces	325
Electronic skins and machine learning for intelligent soft robots	282
An autonomous untethered fast soft robotic insect driven by low-voltage dielectric elastomer actuators	250
Multifunctional surface microrollers for targeted cargo delivery in physiological blood flow	199
Enzyme-powered Janus platelet cell robots for active and targeted drug delivery	199
Dual-responsive biohybrid neutrobots for active target delivery	176
Skin-inspired quadruple tactile sensors integrated on a robot hand enable object recognition	158
Soft magnetic skin for super-resolution tactile sensing with force self-decoupling	146
Learning robust perceptive locomotion for quadrupedal robots in the wild	144
Fast and programmable locomotion of hydrogel-metal hybrids under light and magnetic fields	137
Electronics-free pneumatic circuits for controlling soft-legged robots	133
Robot Operating System 2: Design, architecture, and uses in the wild	132
Endoscopy-assisted magnetic navigation of biohybrid soft microrobots with rapid endoluminal delivery and imaging	127
Human adipose–derived mesenchymal stem cell–based medical microrobot system for knee cartilage regeneration in vivo	124
Minimal navigation solution for a swarm of tiny flying robots to explore an unknown environment	120
Dynamic obstacle avoidance for quadrotors with event cameras	117
Swarming behavior and in vivo monitoring of enzymatic nanomotors within the bladder	113
Somatosensory actuator based on stretchable conductive photothermally responsive hydrogel	111
Inflatable soft jumper inspired by shell snapping	110
Electrospun liquid crystal elastomer microfiber actuator	110
Bioinspired dual-morphing stretchable origami	109
Reflections on the future of swarm robotics	108

A decade retrospective of medical robotics research from 2010 to 2020	105
Implicit coordination for 3D underwater collective behaviors in a fish-inspired robot swarm	102
Autonomic perspiration in 3D-printed hydrogel actuators	101
An agglutinate magnetic spray transforms inanimate objects into millirobots for biomedical applications	98
Elucidating the interaction dynamics between microswimmer body and immune system for medical microrobots	98
Voxelated three-dimensional miniature magnetic soft machines via multimaterial heterogeneous assembly	97
Actuation of untethered pneumatic artificial muscles and soft robots using magnetically induced liquid-to-gas phase transitions	90
3D-printed programmable tensegrity for soft robotics	84
Multi-expert learning of adaptive legged locomotion	84
Swarm of micro flying robots in the wild	83
Heterogeneous sensing in a multifunctional soft sensor for human-robot interfaces	82
Learning high-speed flight in the wild	78
A cellular platform for the development of synthetic living machines	77
Improving the energy economy of human running with powered and unpowered ankle exoskeleton assistance	77
Telerobotic neurovascular interventions with magnetic manipulation	74
Soft biohybrid morphing wings with feathers underactuated by wrist and finger motion	74
The Hannes hand prosthesis replicates the key biological properties of the human hand	72
An 88-milligram insect-scale autonomous crawling robot driven by a catalytic artificial muscle	71
Bioinspired wing and tail morphing extends drone flight capabilities	70
Bioinspired underwater legged robot for seabed exploration with low environmental disturbance	69
Ladybird beetle–inspired compliant origami	67
An untethered isoperimetric soft robot	66
Grasping with kirigami shells	66
Modeling, learning, perception, and control methods for deformable object manipulation	65
Reinforcement learning with artificial microswimmers	65
Robotic hand augmentation drives changes in neural body representation	64
Time-optimal planning for quadrotor waypoint flight	62
A tale of two explanations: Enhancing human trust by explaining robot behavior	60
Electrically programmable adhesive hydrogels for climbing robots	60
Light-powered soft steam engines for self-adaptive oscillation and biomimetic swimming	60
Electro-pneumatic pumps for soft robotics	59
A meta-analysis on the effectiveness of anthropomorphism in human-robot interaction	59
Robotic surfaces with reversible, spatiotemporal control for shape morphing and object manipulation	58
Controlling subterranean forces enables a fast, steerable, burrowing soft robot	58
A vision for future bioinspired and biohybrid robots	57
All-printed soft human-machine interface for robotic physicochemical sensing	56
Using the fringe field of a clinical MRI scanner enables robotic navigation of tethered instruments in deeper vascular regions	56
Biomorphic structural batteries for robotics	56
Bird-inspired dynamic grasping and perching in arboreal environments	55
Electrostatic footpads enable agile insect-scale soft robots with trajectory control	54
Autonomous robotic laparoscopic surgery for intestinal anastomosis	53
Neurorobotic fusion of prosthetic touch, kinesthesia, and movement in bionic upper limbs promotes intrinsic brain behaviors	52
A resonant squid-inspired robot unlocks biological propulsive efficiency	51
Neuro-inspired electronic skin for robots	51
Hard questions for soft robotics	50
Self-powered locomotion of a hydrogel water strider	50
A ferrobotic system for automated microfluidic logistics	50
Emergence of robust self-organized undulatory swimming based on local hydrodynamic force sensing	49
Tunable stiffness enables fast and efficient swimming in fish-like robots	49
Progress in robotics for combating infectious diseases	48

3D printing of resilient biogels for omnidirectional and exteroceptive soft actuators	48
Micrometer-sized electrically programmable shape-memory actuators for low-power microrobotics	48
Field performance of sterile male mosquitoes released from an uncrewed aerial vehicle	47
Individualization of exosuit assistance based on measured muscle dynamics during versatile walking	46
A bipedal walking robot that can fly, slackline, and skateboard	45
Biohybrid soft robots with self-stimulating skeletons	45
An autonomous excavator system for material loading tasks	44
Powered knee and ankle prosthesis with indirect volitional swing control enables level-ground walking and crossing over obstacles	43
Light-driven carbon nitride microswimmers with propulsion in biological and ionic media and responsive on-demand drug delivery	43
Printed synaptic transistor–based electronic skin for robots to feel and learn	43
A pipeline inspection robot for navigating tubular environments in the sub-centimeter scale	43
An autonomous drone for search and rescue in forests using airborne optical sectioning	43
Vibrational control: A hidden stabilization mechanism in insect flight	43
Shape morphing mechanical metamaterials through reversible plasticity	41
A formal methods approach to interpretable reinforcement learning for robotic planning	41
Wireless steerable vision for live insects and insect-scale robots	40
Sustainable manufacturing of sensors onto soft systems using self-coagulating conductive Pickering emulsions	39
CERBERUS in the DARPA Subterranean Challenge	39
Magnetic quadrupole assemblies with arbitrary shapes and magnetizations	39