Soft Robotics

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 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
3D-Printed Soft Sensors for Adaptive Sensing with Online and Offline Tunable Stiffness36
A Cut-and-Fold Self-Sustained Compliant Oscillator for Autonomous Actuation of Origami-Inspired Robots36
Tunable Soft Lens of Large Focal Length Change36
A Holistic Indirect Contact Identification Method for Soft Robot Proprioception35
Electro-Thermopneumatically Actuated, Adhesion-Force Controllable Octopus-Like Suction Cup Actuator34
A Versatile Topology-Optimized Compliant Actuator for Soft Robotic Gripper and Walking Robot33
Ultralow Voltage High-Performance Nanocellulose-Based Electro-Ionic Actuators for Soft Robots31
Closing the Control Loop with Time-Variant Embedded Soft Sensors and Recurrent Neural Networks31
Toward Onboard Proportional Control of Multi-Chamber Soft Pneumatic Robots: A Magnetorheological Elastomer Valve Array31
SoftSnap: Rapid Prototyping of Untethered Soft Robots Using Snap-Together Modules31
A Biomimetic Adhesive Disc for Robotic Adhesion Sliding Inspired by the Net-Winged Midge Larva31
Adaptive and Robust Switchable Adhesion System: Bio-Inspired Synergistic Integration from Octopuses and Geckos30
A Versatile 3D-Printable Soft Pneumatic Actuator Design for Multi-Functional Applications in Soft Robotics30
Biological Robots: Perspectives on an Emerging Interdisciplinary Field30
Design and Motion Analysis of a Soft Modular Robot for Diverse Environments29
Bioinspired Vacuum Generation via Pressure-to-Vacuum Conversion for Manipulating all Phases of Matter29
Print-and-Spray Electromechanical Metamaterials29
A Deep Learning Framework for Soft Robots with Synthetic Data29
Fluid-Driven Traveling Waves in Soft Robots29
Fin-Bayes: A Multi-Objective Bayesian Optimization Framework for Soft Robotic Fingers28
Soft Robot Proprioception Using Unified Soft Body Encoding and Recurrent Neural Network28
Tensegrity Robotics28
Reconfigurable, Transformable Soft Pneumatic Actuator with Tunable Three-Dimensional Deformations for Dexterous Soft Robotics Applications27
Trajectory Planning on Rolling Locomotion of Spherical Movable Tensegrity Robots with Multi-Gait Patterns27
Topology Optimization and Prototype of a Multimaterial-Like Compliant Finger by Varying the Infill Density in 3D Printing27
FluidicOscillation-BasedPneumaticActuationfor SoftLocomotionandGrasping26
An Ambidextrous STarfish-Inspired Exploration and Reconnaissance Robot (The ASTER-bot)26
A Soft Growing Robotic Endoscope for Painless and Strain-Free Insertion26
A Fast Online Elastic-Spine-Based Stiffness Adjusting Mechanism for Fishlike Swimming26
Introducing the New Deputy-Editor-in-Chief26
Bioinspired Multimodal Multipose Hybrid Fingers for Wide-Range Force, Compliant, and Stable Grasping26
HyReach: Vision-Guided Hybrid Manipulator Reaching in Cluttered Unseen Environments25
Anguilliform Swimming Performance of an Eel-Inspired Soft Robot25
Fast Thermal Actuators for Soft Robotics25
Intentional Blocking Based Photoelectric Soft Pressure Sensor with High Sensitivity and Stability24
Piezo-Wormbots for Continuous Crawling23
Acknowledgment of Reviewers 202323
Nonlinear Dynamics Research of Ground Undulatory Fin Robot with Flexible Deformation and Frictional Contact23
The Walking Control of a Crab Biorobot in Amphibious Environment23
Soft Robotics for Space Applications: Cryogenic Performance of Modular Metallic Cable Structures23
Acknowledgment of Reviewers 202422
Single-Actuator Soft Robot for In-Pipe Crawling22
A Hybrid Anchoring Technology Composed of Reinforced Flexible Shells for a Knee Unloading Exosuit22
Fluidic Multichambered Actuator and Multiaxis Intrinsic Force Sensing22
Armor-Based Stable Force Pneumatic Artificial Muscles for Steady Actuation Properties22
Fin-A-Rays: Expanding Soft Gripper Compliance via Discrete Arrays of Flexible Structures22
A Bioinspired Compliant 3D-Printed Soft Gripper21
Shape and Tactile Perceptions of Soft Fingers via Distributed Curvature Sensing for Intelligent Grippers21
Tuning the Morphology of Suction Discs to Enable Directional Adhesion for Locomotion in Wet Environments21
Biomimetic Closed-Loop Control of a Novel Soft Gastric Simulator Toward Emulating Antral Contraction Waves21
Spikebot: A Multigait Tensegrity Robot with Linearly Extending Struts21
Optimal Design of Electrode Topology of Dielectric Elastomer Actuators Based on the Parameterized Level Set Method21
Bioinspired Soft Electrostatic Accordion-Fold Actuators21
An Inchworm-Inspired Fast-Moving Micro Flexible Robot for Autonomous Terrain-Adaptive Exploration21
Design of a Wearable Real-Time Hand Motion Tracking System Using an Array of Soft Polymer Acoustic Waveguides21
MorphGI: A Self-Propelling Soft Robotic Endoscope Through Morphing Shape21
Three-Fingered Soft Pneumatic Gripper Integrating Joint-Tuning Capability20
A Fast Bipedal Biohybrid Crawler Driven by Single Muscle Swinging20
Multifunction Robotized Surgical Dissector for Endoscopic Pulmonary Thromboendarterectomy: Preclinical Study and Evaluation20
Prescribing Cartesian Stiffness of Soft Robots by Co-Optimization of Shape and Segment-Level Stiffness20
A Gecko-Inspired Robot with a Flexible Spine Driven by Shape Memory Alloy Springs20
Biohybrid Behavior-Based Navigation with Obstacle Avoidance for Cyborg Insect in Complex Environment20
Kirigami-Inspired 3D Printable Soft Pneumatic Actuators with Multiple Deformation Modes for Soft Robotic Applications20
Programmable Shape-Shifting Soft Robotic Structure Using Liquid Metal Electromagnetic Actuators19
Engineering Magnetic Soft and Reconfigurable Robots19
Fully Soft Pressure Sensor Based on Bionic Spine–Pillar Structure for Robotics Motion Monitoring19
A Reconfigurable Soft Helical Actuator with Variable Stiffness Skeleton19
Whisker Sensing by Force and Moment Measurements at the Whisker Base19
Corrigendum to: Proprioception and Control of a Soft Pneumatic Actuator Made of a Self-Healable Hydrogel19
Soft Crawling Microrobot Based on Flexible Optoelectronics Enabling Autonomous Phototaxis in Terrestrial and Aquatic Environments19
Generating Clear Vibrotactile Cues with a Magnet Embedded in a Soft Finger Sheath19
Magnetic Continuum Robot with Intraoperative Magnetic Moment Programming19
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