OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Soft Robotics is 19. 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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
A Soft Amphibious Turtle Robot with Flexibility and Omnidirectional Motion Ability Actuated by Multiple Bionic Muscles	152
Bioinspired, Shape-Morphing Scale Battery for Untethered Soft Robots	119
Model-Based 3D Shape Reconstruction of Soft Robots via Distributed Strain Sensing	109
Magnetic Soft Catheter Robot System for Minimally Invasive Treatments of Articular Cartilage Defects	102
Design and Control of Lightweight Bionic Arm Driven by Soft Twisted and Coiled Artificial Muscles	100
Soft Robotic Perspective and Concept for Planetary Small Body Exploration	97
Multi-Degree-of-Freedom Force Sensor Incorporated into Soft Robotic Gripper for Improved Grasping Stability	95
Shape Reconstruction of Extensible Continuum Manipulator Based on Soft Sensors	72
An Untethered Soft Robot Based on Liquid Crystal Elastomers	71
YoMo: Yoshimura Continuum Manipulator for MR Environment	67
Frictional Anisotropic Locomotion and Adaptive Neural Control for a Soft Crawling Robot	67
Steering Muscle-Based Bio-Syncretic Robot Through Bionic Optimized Biped Mechanical Design	67
Twisting and Braiding Fluid-Driven Soft Artificial Muscle Fibers for Robotic Applications	67
Optimal Control of Dielectric Elastomer Actuated Multibody Dynamical Systems	65
ZodiAq: An Isotropic Flagella-Inspired Soft Underwater Drone for Safe Marine Exploration	65
Harnessing Liquid Crystal Elastomers for Locomotion and Mechanical Intelligence in a Soft Robot	65
Skeletonizing the Dynamics of Soft Continuum Body from Video	64
Mechanics and Morphological Compensation Strategy for Trimmed Soft Whisker Sensor	61
Human-Inspired Tactile Perception System for Real-Time and Multimodal Detection of Tactile Stimuli	58
Stiffness Tunable Magnetic Actuators Based on Shape Memory Polymer/NdFeB Composite for Segmental Controllable Motion	58
Soft Tubular-Surface Rolling Robots	57
Advancing Soft Robot Proprioception Through 6D Strain Sensors Embedding	56
Stiffness Preprogrammable Soft Bending Pneumatic Actuators for High-Efficient, Conformal Operation	55
Chemically Driven Oscillating Soft Pneumatic Actuation	54
Nanotextured Soft Electrothermo-Pneumatic Actuator for Constructing Lightweight, Integrated, and Untethered Soft Robotics	53

Biomimetic Octopus Suction Cup with Attachment Force Self-Sensing Capability for Cardiac Adhesion	53
Unfolding Textile-Based Pneumatic Actuators for Wearable Applications	53
A Passively Conforming Soft Robotic Gripper with Three-Dimensional Negative Bending Stiffness Fingers	52
Hygromachines: Humidity-Powered Wheels, Seesaws, and Vehicles	52
Selaginella lepidophylla-Inspired Multi-Stimulus Cooperative Control MXene-Based Flexible Actuator	50
Thermo-Pneumatic Artificial Muscle: Air-Based Thermo-Pneumatic Artificial Muscles for Pumpless Pneumatic Actuation	49
Performance Enhancement of Soft Nanotextured Thermopneumatic Actuator by Incorporating Silver Nanowires into Elastomer Body	46
Improvement of Precision Grasping Performance by Interaction Between Soft Finger Pulp and Hard Nail	44
Magnetic Liquid Metal Droplet Robot with Multifunction and High Output Force in Milli-Newton	44
A Variable Stiffness Bioinspired Swallowing Gripper Based on Particle Jamming	43
A Dual-Modal Hybrid Gripper with Wide Tunable Contact Stiffness Range and High Compliance for Adaptive and Wide-Range Grasping Objects with Diverse Fragilities	43
A Variable Stiffness Soft Gripper Based on Rotational Layer Jamming	43
Electro-Thermopneumatically Actuated, Adhesion-Force Controllable Octopus-Like Suction Cup Actuator	42
Ultralow Voltage High-Performance Nanocellulose-Based Electro-Ionic Actuators for Soft Robots	40
SoftSnap: Rapid Prototyping of Untethered Soft Robots Using Snap-Together Modules	40
A Versatile Topology-Optimized Compliant Actuator for Soft Robotic Gripper and Walking Robot	39
Far-Field Magnetic Sensing on Soft Origami Actuator for Spatial Multidimensional Movement and Force Perception	38
A Versatile 3D-Printable Soft Pneumatic Actuator Design for Multi-Functional Applications in Soft Robotics	38
Tunable Soft Lens of Large Focal Length Change	36
Enabling Tunable Stiffness, Adhesive Grasping, and Interaction-Driven Reconfiguration: A Shape-Memory-Polymer-Enhanced Fin-Ray Gripper	36
Inflatable Particle-Jammed Robotic Gripper Based on Integration of Positive Pressure and Partial Filling	35
A Holistic Indirect Contact Identification Method for Soft Robot Proprioception	35
Closing the Control Loop with Time-Variant Embedded Soft Sensors and Recurrent Neural Networks	33
Toward Onboard Proportional Control of Multi-Chamber Soft Pneumatic Robots: A Magnetorheological Elastomer Valve Array	33
Biological Robots: Perspectives on an Emerging Interdisciplinary Field	33
A Biomimetic Adhesive Disc for Robotic Adhesion Sliding Inspired by the Net-Winged Midge Larva	32
3D-Printed Soft Sensors for Adaptive Sensing with Online and Offline Tunable Stiffness	32
A Cut-and-Fold Self-Sustained Compliant Oscillator for Autonomous Actuation of Origami-Inspired Robots	31
Design and Motion Analysis of a Soft Modular Robot for Diverse Environments	30
Acknowledgment of Reviewers 2021	30
Trajectory Planning on Rolling Locomotion of Spherical Movable Tensegrity Robots with Multi-Gait Patterns	29
Adaptive and Robust Switchable Adhesion System: Bio-Inspired Synergistic Integration from Octopuses and Geckos	29
Reconfigurable, Transformable Soft Pneumatic Actuator with Tunable Three-Dimensional Deformations for Dexterous Soft Robotics Applications	28
Print-and-Spray Electromechanical Metamaterials	28
Bioinspired Vacuum Generation via Pressure-to-Vacuum Conversion for Manipulating all Phases of Matter	28
Fin-Bayes: A Multi-Objective Bayesian Optimization Framework for Soft Robotic Fingers	27
Fluid-Driven Traveling Waves in Soft Robots	26
Soft Robot Proprioception Using Unified Soft Body Encoding and Recurrent Neural Network	26
A Deep Learning Framework for Soft Robots with Synthetic Data	26
Honeycomb Jamming: An Enabling Technology of Variable Stiffness Reconfiguration	25
Introducing the New Deputy-Editor-in-Chief	25
FluidicOscillation-BasedPneumaticActuationfor SoftLocomotionandGrasping	25
Tensegrity Robotics	25
An Ambidextrous STarfish-Inspired Exploration and Reconnaissance Robot (The ASTER-bot)	25
A Fast Online Elastic-Spine-Based Stiffness Adjusting Mechanism for Fishlike Swimming	25
Bioinspired Multimodal Multipose Hybrid Fingers for Wide-Range Force, Compliant, and Stable Grasping	24
Topology Optimization and Prototype of a Multimaterial-Like Compliant Finger by Varying the Infill Density in 3D Printing	24
A Human-Inspired Soft Finger with Dual-Mode Morphing Enabled by Variable Stiffness Mechanism	24
Anguilliform Swimming Performance of an Eel-Inspired Soft Robot	24
Intentional Blocking Based Photoelectric Soft Pressure Sensor with High Sensitivity and Stability	23

Fast Thermal Actuators for Soft Robotics	23
Soft Robotics for Space Applications: Cryogenic Performance of Modular Metallic Cable Structures	23
Acknowledgment of Reviewers 2023	23
Fluidic Multichambered Actuator and Multiaxis Intrinsic Force Sensing	22
Nonlinear Dynamics Research of Ground Undulatory Fin Robot with Flexible Deformation and Frictional Contact	22
Spikebot: A Multigait Tensegrity Robot with Linearly Extending Struts	22
The Walking Control of a Crab Biorobot in Amphibious Environment	22
Acknowledgment of Reviewers 2024	22
Piezo-Wormbots for Continuous Crawling	22
Action Augmentation of Tactile Perception for Soft-Body Palpation	21
Fin-A-Rays: Expanding Soft Gripper Compliance via Discrete Arrays of Flexible Structures	21
A Hybrid Anchoring Technology Composed of Reinforced Flexible Shells for a Knee Unloading Exosuit	21
Armor-Based Stable Force Pneumatic Artificial Muscles for Steady Actuation Properties	21
Single-Actuator Soft Robot for In-Pipe Crawling	21
Design of a Wearable Real-Time Hand Motion Tracking System Using an Array of Soft Polymer Acoustic Waveguides	21
Miniaturized Circuitry for Capacitive Self-Sensing and Closed-Loop Control of Soft Electrostatic Transducers	20
Optimal Design of Electrode Topology of Dielectric Elastomer Actuators Based on the Parameterized Level Set Method	20
Tuning the Morphology of Suction Discs to Enable Directional Adhesion for Locomotion in Wet Environments	20
MorphGI: A Self-Propelling Soft Robotic Endoscope Through Morphing Shape	20
Bioinspired Soft Electrostatic Accordion-Fold Actuators	20
Harnessing the Multistability of Kresling Origami for Reconfigurable Articulation in Soft Robotic Arms	19
Design and Feasibility Tests of a Lightweight Soft Gripper for Compliant and Flexible Envelope Grasping	19
Scaling Up Soft Robotics: A Meter-Scale, Modular, and Reconfigurable Soft Robotic System	19
Biomimetic Closed-Loop Control of a Novel Soft Gastric Simulator Toward Emulating Antral Contraction Waves	19