Soft Robotics

Papers
(The H4-Index of Soft Robotics is 37. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Design and Control of Lightweight Bionic Arm Driven by Soft Twisted and Coiled Artificial Muscles130
Multi-Degree-of-Freedom Force Sensor Incorporated into Soft Robotic Gripper for Improved Grasping Stability117
Shape Reconstruction of Extensible Continuum Manipulator Based on Soft Sensors80
Model-Based 3D Shape Reconstruction of Soft Robots via Distributed Strain Sensing79
Magnetic Soft Catheter Robot System for Minimally Invasive Treatments of Articular Cartilage Defects76
YoMo: Yoshimura Continuum Manipulator for MR Environment74
Frictional Anisotropic Locomotion and Adaptive Neural Control for a Soft Crawling Robot74
Soft Robotic Perspective and Concept for Planetary Small Body Exploration73
Twisting and Braiding Fluid-Driven Soft Artificial Muscle Fibers for Robotic Applications72
Bioinspired, Shape-Morphing Scale Battery for Untethered Soft Robots70
A Soft Amphibious Turtle Robot with Flexibility and Omnidirectional Motion Ability Actuated by Multiple Bionic Muscles70
Steering Muscle-Based Bio-Syncretic Robot Through Bionic Optimized Biped Mechanical Design69
Soft Tubular-Surface Rolling Robots68
Human-Inspired Tactile Perception System for Real-Time and Multimodal Detection of Tactile Stimuli63
Double-Layer Self-Locking Origami Based on Opposite Folding Motion62
ZodiAq: An Isotropic Flagella-Inspired Soft Underwater Drone for Safe Marine Exploration61
Advancing Soft Robot Proprioception Through 6D Strain Sensors Embedding61
Optimal Control of Dielectric Elastomer Actuated Multibody Dynamical Systems54
Biomimetic Octopus Suction Cup with Attachment Force Self-Sensing Capability for Cardiac Adhesion52
Stiffness Preprogrammable Soft Bending Pneumatic Actuators for High-Efficient, Conformal Operation51
Nanotextured Soft Electrothermo-Pneumatic Actuator for Constructing Lightweight, Integrated, and Untethered Soft Robotics49
Harnessing Liquid Crystal Elastomers for Locomotion and Mechanical Intelligence in a Soft Robot48
Chemically Driven Oscillating Soft Pneumatic Actuation47
A Collaborative Flipping Continuum Wall-Climbing Robot with Integrated Drive and Function46
Stiffness Tunable Magnetic Actuators Based on Shape Memory Polymer/NdFeB Composite for Segmental Controllable Motion46
Magnetic Liquid Metal Droplet Robot with Multifunction and High Output Force in Milli-Newton44
Improvement of Precision Grasping Performance by Interaction Between Soft Finger Pulp and Hard Nail42
A Variable Stiffness Bioinspired Swallowing Gripper Based on Particle Jamming42
Thermo-Pneumatic Artificial Muscle: Air-Based Thermo-Pneumatic Artificial Muscles for Pumpless Pneumatic Actuation41
Selaginella lepidophylla -Inspired Multi-Stimulus Cooperative Control MXene-Based Flexible Actuator41
A Variable Stiffness Soft Gripper Based on Rotational Layer Jamming40
Origami Actuator with Tunable Limiting Layer for Morphological Adaptive Soft Robots40
A Passively Conforming Soft Robotic Gripper with Three-Dimensional Negative Bending Stiffness Fingers40
Hygromachines: Humidity-Powered Wheels, Seesaws, and Vehicles40
Far-Field Magnetic Sensing on Soft Origami Actuator for Spatial Multidimensional Movement and Force Perception38
A Dual-Modal Hybrid Gripper with Wide Tunable Contact Stiffness Range and High Compliance for Adaptive and Wide-Range Grasping Objects with Diverse Fragilities38
Enabling Tunable Stiffness, Adhesive Grasping, and Interaction-Driven Reconfiguration: A Shape-Memory-Polymer-Enhanced Fin-Ray Gripper38
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