Soft Robotics

Papers
(The H4-Index of Soft Robotics is 40. 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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)
ArticleCitations
YoMo: Yoshimura Continuum Manipulator for MR Environment142
Shape Reconstruction of Extensible Continuum Manipulator Based on Soft Sensors115
Magnetic Soft Catheter Robot System for Minimally Invasive Treatments of Articular Cartilage Defects103
Soft Robotic Perspective and Concept for Planetary Small Body Exploration101
Model-Based 3D Shape Reconstruction of Soft Robots via Distributed Strain Sensing98
Multi-Degree-of-Freedom Force Sensor Incorporated into Soft Robotic Gripper for Improved Grasping Stability95
An Untethered Soft Robot Based on Liquid Crystal Elastomers92
Bioinspired, Shape-Morphing Scale Battery for Untethered Soft Robots88
Frictional Anisotropic Locomotion and Adaptive Neural Control for a Soft Crawling Robot76
Design and Control of Lightweight Bionic Arm Driven by Soft Twisted and Coiled Artificial Muscles68
Twisting and Braiding Fluid-Driven Soft Artificial Muscle Fibers for Robotic Applications66
Steering Muscle-Based Bio-Syncretic Robot Through Bionic Optimized Biped Mechanical Design64
Optimal Control of Dielectric Elastomer Actuated Multibody Dynamical Systems63
A Soft Amphibious Turtle Robot with Flexibility and Omnidirectional Motion Ability Actuated by Multiple Bionic Muscles63
Harnessing Liquid Crystal Elastomers for Locomotion and Mechanical Intelligence in a Soft Robot63
ZodiAq: An Isotropic Flagella-Inspired Soft Underwater Drone for Safe Marine Exploration63
Skeletonizing the Dynamics of Soft Continuum Body from Video62
Human-Inspired Tactile Perception System for Real-Time and Multimodal Detection of Tactile Stimuli61
Stiffness Preprogrammable Soft Bending Pneumatic Actuators for High-Efficient, Conformal Operation60
Advancing Soft Robot Proprioception Through 6D Strain Sensors Embedding60
Mechanics and Morphological Compensation Strategy for Trimmed Soft Whisker Sensor59
Stiffness Tunable Magnetic Actuators Based on Shape Memory Polymer/NdFeB Composite for Segmental Controllable Motion56
Nanotextured Soft Electrothermo-Pneumatic Actuator for Constructing Lightweight, Integrated, and Untethered Soft Robotics53
Biomimetic Octopus Suction Cup with Attachment Force Self-Sensing Capability for Cardiac Adhesion53
Unfolding Textile-Based Pneumatic Actuators for Wearable Applications52
Hygromachines: Humidity-Powered Wheels, Seesaws, and Vehicles52
Chemically Driven Oscillating Soft Pneumatic Actuation52
Improvement of Precision Grasping Performance by Interaction Between Soft Finger Pulp and Hard Nail51
A Passively Conforming Soft Robotic Gripper with Three-Dimensional Negative Bending Stiffness Fingers51
Thermo-Pneumatic Artificial Muscle: Air-Based Thermo-Pneumatic Artificial Muscles for Pumpless Pneumatic Actuation50
Performance Enhancement of Soft Nanotextured Thermopneumatic Actuator by Incorporating Silver Nanowires into Elastomer Body49
Selaginella lepidophylla-Inspired Multi-Stimulus Cooperative Control MXene-Based Flexible Actuator48
Magnetic Liquid Metal Droplet Robot with Multifunction and High Output Force in Milli-Newton47
A Variable Stiffness Bioinspired Swallowing Gripper Based on Particle Jamming44
A Dual-Modal Hybrid Gripper with Wide Tunable Contact Stiffness Range and High Compliance for Adaptive and Wide-Range Grasping Objects with Diverse Fragilities44
A Variable Stiffness Soft Gripper Based on Rotational Layer Jamming43
A Biomimetic Adhesive Disc for Robotic Adhesion Sliding Inspired by the Net-Winged Midge Larva43
3D-Printed Soft Sensors for Adaptive Sensing with Online and Offline Tunable Stiffness42
Closing the Control Loop with Time-Variant Embedded Soft Sensors and Recurrent Neural Networks41
SoftSnap: Rapid Prototyping of Untethered Soft Robots Using Snap-Together Modules40
Electro-Thermopneumatically Actuated, Adhesion-Force Controllable Octopus-Like Suction Cup Actuator40
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