OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Soft Robotics is 39. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Multi-Degree-of-Freedom Force Sensor Incorporated into Soft Robotic Gripper for Improved Grasping Stability	230
Magnetic Soft Catheter Robot System for Minimally Invasive Treatments of Articular Cartilage Defects	113
YoMo: Yoshimura Continuum Manipulator for MR Environment	97
Shape Reconstruction of Extensible Continuum Manipulator Based on Soft Sensors	96
Design and Control of Lightweight Bionic Arm Driven by Soft Twisted and Coiled Artificial Muscles	86
Soft Robotic Perspective and Concept for Planetary Small Body Exploration	86
Twisting and Braiding Fluid-Driven Soft Artificial Muscle Fibers for Robotic Applications	81
An Untethered Soft Robot Based on Liquid Crystal Elastomers	78
Bioinspired, Shape-Morphing Scale Battery for Untethered Soft Robots	78
Steering Muscle-Based Bio-Syncretic Robot Through Bionic Optimized Biped Mechanical Design	76
Frictional Anisotropic Locomotion and Adaptive Neural Control for a Soft Crawling Robot	67
Optimal Control of Dielectric Elastomer Actuated Multibody Dynamical Systems	65
Stiffness Tunable Magnetic Actuators Based on Shape Memory Polymer/NdFeB Composite for Segmental Controllable Motion	57
Skeletonizing the Dynamics of Soft Continuum Body from Video	57
Mechanics and Morphological Compensation Strategy for Trimmed Soft Whisker Sensor	54
Advancing Soft Robot Proprioception Through 6D Strain Sensors Embedding	54
Human-Inspired Tactile Perception System for Real-Time and Multimodal Detection of Tactile Stimuli	54
Stiffness Preprogrammable Soft Bending Pneumatic Actuators for High-Efficient, Conformal Operation	54
ZodiAq: An Isotropic Flagella-Inspired Soft Underwater Drone for Safe Marine Exploration	53
Chemically Driven Oscillating Soft Pneumatic Actuation	51
Unfolding Textile-Based Pneumatic Actuators for Wearable Applications	50
Harnessing Liquid Crystal Elastomers for Locomotion and Mechanical Intelligence in a Soft Robot	50
Biomimetic Octopus Suction Cup with Attachment Force Self-Sensing Capability for Cardiac Adhesion	49
Nanotextured Soft Electrothermo-Pneumatic Actuator for Constructing Lightweight, Integrated, and Untethered Soft Robotics	48
Thermo-Pneumatic Artificial Muscle: Air-Based Thermo-Pneumatic Artificial Muscles for Pumpless Pneumatic Actuation	48

Improvement of Precision Grasping Performance by Interaction Between Soft Finger Pulp and Hard Nail	47
Selaginella lepidophylla-Inspired Multi-Stimulus Cooperative Control MXene-Based Flexible Actuator	47
A Variable Stiffness Soft Gripper Based on Rotational Layer Jamming	46
A Dual-Modal Hybrid Gripper with Wide Tunable Contact Stiffness Range and High Compliance for Adaptive and Wide-Range Grasping Objects with Diverse Fragilities	45
Hygromachines: Humidity-Powered Wheels, Seesaws, and Vehicles	44
A Variable Stiffness Bioinspired Swallowing Gripper Based on Particle Jamming	44
A Passively Conforming Soft Robotic Gripper with Three-Dimensional Negative Bending Stiffness Fingers	43
Magnetic Liquid Metal Droplet Robot with Multifunction and High Output Force in Milli-Newton	43
Performance Enhancement of Soft Nanotextured Thermopneumatic Actuator by Incorporating Silver Nanowires into Elastomer Body	43
Electro-Thermopneumatically Actuated, Adhesion-Force Controllable Octopus-Like Suction Cup Actuator	40
Tunable Soft Lens of Large Focal Length Change	40
3D-Printed Soft Sensors for Adaptive Sensing with Online and Offline Tunable Stiffness	40
A Cut-and-Fold Self-Sustained Compliant Oscillator for Autonomous Actuation of Origami-Inspired Robots	39
Ultralow Voltage High-Performance Nanocellulose-Based Electro-Ionic Actuators for Soft Robots	39