Soft Robotics

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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
A Soft Amphibious Turtle Robot with Flexibility and Omnidirectional Motion Ability Actuated by Multiple Bionic Muscles145
Twisting and Braiding Fluid-Driven Soft Artificial Muscle Fibers for Robotic Applications116
YoMo: Yoshimura Continuum Manipulator for MR Environment102
Shape Reconstruction of Extensible Continuum Manipulator Based on Soft Sensors101
Magnetic Soft Catheter Robot System for Minimally Invasive Treatments of Articular Cartilage Defects98
Model-Based 3D Shape Reconstruction of Soft Robots via Distributed Strain Sensing96
Design and Control of Lightweight Bionic Arm Driven by Soft Twisted and Coiled Artificial Muscles91
Steering Muscle-Based Bio-Syncretic Robot Through Bionic Optimized Biped Mechanical Design69
Bioinspired, Shape-Morphing Scale Battery for Untethered Soft Robots66
Soft Robotic Perspective and Concept for Planetary Small Body Exploration66
Frictional Anisotropic Locomotion and Adaptive Neural Control for a Soft Crawling Robot65
An Untethered Soft Robot Based on Liquid Crystal Elastomers65
Multi-Degree-of-Freedom Force Sensor Incorporated into Soft Robotic Gripper for Improved Grasping Stability64
Harnessing Liquid Crystal Elastomers for Locomotion and Mechanical Intelligence in a Soft Robot64
ZodiAq: An Isotropic Flagella-Inspired Soft Underwater Drone for Safe Marine Exploration64
Optimal Control of Dielectric Elastomer Actuated Multibody Dynamical Systems63
Skeletonizing the Dynamics of Soft Continuum Body from Video62
Mechanics and Morphological Compensation Strategy for Trimmed Soft Whisker Sensor61
Stiffness Tunable Magnetic Actuators Based on Shape Memory Polymer/NdFeB Composite for Segmental Controllable Motion57
Biomimetic Octopus Suction Cup with Attachment Force Self-Sensing Capability for Cardiac Adhesion56
Human-Inspired Tactile Perception System for Real-Time and Multimodal Detection of Tactile Stimuli54
Chemically Driven Oscillating Soft Pneumatic Actuation54
Unfolding Textile-Based Pneumatic Actuators for Wearable Applications53
Nanotextured Soft Electrothermo-Pneumatic Actuator for Constructing Lightweight, Integrated, and Untethered Soft Robotics53
Advancing Soft Robot Proprioception Through 6D Strain Sensors Embedding52
Stiffness Preprogrammable Soft Bending Pneumatic Actuators for High-Efficient, Conformal Operation52
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
A Variable Stiffness Soft Gripper Based on Rotational Layer Jamming49
Hygromachines: Humidity-Powered Wheels, Seesaws, and Vehicles49
Magnetic Liquid Metal Droplet Robot with Multifunction and High Output Force in Milli-Newton47
Thermo-Pneumatic Artificial Muscle: Air-Based Thermo-Pneumatic Artificial Muscles for Pumpless Pneumatic Actuation46
Selaginella lepidophylla-Inspired Multi-Stimulus Cooperative Control MXene-Based Flexible Actuator43
Performance Enhancement of Soft Nanotextured Thermopneumatic Actuator by Incorporating Silver Nanowires into Elastomer Body43
A Variable Stiffness Bioinspired Swallowing Gripper Based on Particle Jamming43
A Dual-Modal Hybrid Gripper with Wide Tunable Contact Stiffness Range and High Compliance for Adaptive and Wide-Range Grasping Objects with Diverse Fragilities42
A Biomimetic Adhesive Disc for Robotic Adhesion Sliding Inspired by the Net-Winged Midge Larva41
Electro-Thermopneumatically Actuated, Adhesion-Force Controllable Octopus-Like Suction Cup Actuator40
SoftSnap: Rapid Prototyping of Untethered Soft Robots Using Snap-Together Modules39
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