Soft Robotics

Papers
(The TQCC of Soft Robotics is 18. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Soft Robotic Perspective and Concept for Planetary Small Body Exploration128
Twisting and Braiding Fluid-Driven Soft Artificial Muscle Fibers for Robotic Applications107
Multi-Degree-of-Freedom Force Sensor Incorporated into Soft Robotic Gripper for Improved Grasping Stability103
Frictional Anisotropic Locomotion and Adaptive Neural Control for a Soft Crawling Robot96
An Untethered Soft Robot Based on Liquid Crystal Elastomers95
Bioinspired, Shape-Morphing Scale Battery for Untethered Soft Robots92
Shape Reconstruction of Extensible Continuum Manipulator Based on Soft Sensors89
Design and Control of Lightweight Bionic Arm Driven by Soft Twisted and Coiled Artificial Muscles86
Model-Based 3D Shape Reconstruction of Soft Robots via Distributed Strain Sensing84
YoMo: Yoshimura Continuum Manipulator for MR Environment71
Magnetic Soft Catheter Robot System for Minimally Invasive Treatments of Articular Cartilage Defects68
Stiffness Tunable Magnetic Actuators Based on Shape Memory Polymer/NdFeB Composite for Segmental Controllable Motion64
Steering Muscle-Based Bio-Syncretic Robot Through Bionic Optimized Biped Mechanical Design64
Chemically Driven Oscillating Soft Pneumatic Actuation62
Mechanics and Morphological Compensation Strategy for Trimmed Soft Whisker Sensor60
Human-Inspired Tactile Perception System for Real-Time and Multimodal Detection of Tactile Stimuli59
Biomimetic Octopus Suction Cup with Attachment Force Self-Sensing Capability for Cardiac Adhesion58
Optimal Control of Dielectric Elastomer Actuated Multibody Dynamical Systems58
Skeletonizing the Dynamics of Soft Continuum Body from Video58
ZodiAq: An Isotropic Flagella-Inspired Soft Underwater Drone for Safe Marine Exploration57
Stiffness Preprogrammable Soft Bending Pneumatic Actuators for High-Efficient, Conformal Operation57
Advancing Soft Robot Proprioception Through 6D Strain Sensors Embedding56
Nanotextured Soft Electrothermo-Pneumatic Actuator for Constructing Lightweight, Integrated, and Untethered Soft Robotics54
Harnessing Liquid Crystal Elastomers for Locomotion and Mechanical Intelligence in a Soft Robot54
Unfolding Textile-Based Pneumatic Actuators for Wearable Applications51
Hygromachines: Humidity-Powered Wheels, Seesaws, and Vehicles50
Improvement of Precision Grasping Performance by Interaction Between Soft Finger Pulp and Hard Nail50
Performance Enhancement of Soft Nanotextured Thermopneumatic Actuator by Incorporating Silver Nanowires into Elastomer Body49
A Dual-Modal Hybrid Gripper with Wide Tunable Contact Stiffness Range and High Compliance for Adaptive and Wide-Range Grasping Objects with Diverse Fragilities49
Magnetic Liquid Metal Droplet Robot with Multifunction and High Output Force in Milli-Newton48
Selaginella lepidophylla-Inspired Multi-Stimulus Cooperative Control MXene-Based Flexible Actuator47
Thermo-Pneumatic Artificial Muscle: Air-Based Thermo-Pneumatic Artificial Muscles for Pumpless Pneumatic Actuation45
A Variable Stiffness Bioinspired Swallowing Gripper Based on Particle Jamming44
A Passively Conforming Soft Robotic Gripper with Three-Dimensional Negative Bending Stiffness Fingers44
A Variable Stiffness Soft Gripper Based on Rotational Layer Jamming44
A Versatile Topology-Optimized Compliant Actuator for Soft Robotic Gripper and Walking Robot43
A Biomimetic Adhesive Disc for Robotic Adhesion Sliding Inspired by the Net-Winged Midge Larva43
A Versatile 3D-Printable Soft Pneumatic Actuator Design for Multi-Functional Applications in Soft Robotics41
Biological Robots: Perspectives on an Emerging Interdisciplinary Field39
3D-Printed Soft Sensors for Adaptive Sensing with Online and Offline Tunable Stiffness38
Toward Onboard Proportional Control of Multi-Chamber Soft Pneumatic Robots: A Magnetorheological Elastomer Valve Array38
Electro-Thermopneumatically Actuated, Adhesion-Force Controllable Octopus-Like Suction Cup Actuator38
Closing the Control Loop with Time-Variant Embedded Soft Sensors and Recurrent Neural Networks37
Tunable Soft Lens of Large Focal Length Change37
A Cut-and-Fold Self-Sustained Compliant Oscillator for Autonomous Actuation of Origami-Inspired Robots36
Ultralow Voltage High-Performance Nanocellulose-Based Electro-Ionic Actuators for Soft Robots36
SoftSnap: Rapid Prototyping of Untethered Soft Robots Using Snap-Together Modules36
A Holistic Indirect Contact Identification Method for Soft Robot Proprioception35
Tensegrity Robotics35
Acknowledgment of Reviewers 202135
Inflatable Particle-Jammed Robotic Gripper Based on Integration of Positive Pressure and Partial Filling35
Trajectory Planning on Rolling Locomotion of Spherical Movable Tensegrity Robots with Multi-Gait Patterns34
Fluid-Driven Traveling Waves in Soft Robots30
Soft Robot Proprioception Using Unified Soft Body Encoding and Recurrent Neural Network30
Print-and-Spray Electromechanical Metamaterials30
Fin-Bayes: A Multi-Objective Bayesian Optimization Framework for Soft Robotic Fingers30
Design and Fabrication of a Low-Cost Silicone and Water-Based Soft Actuator with a High Load-to-Weight Ratio29
A Deep Learning Framework for Soft Robots with Synthetic Data29
Reconfigurable, Transformable Soft Pneumatic Actuator with Tunable Three-Dimensional Deformations for Dexterous Soft Robotics Applications28
Design and Motion Analysis of a Soft Modular Robot for Diverse Environments28
Introducing the New Deputy-Editor-in-Chief27
Rapid Soft Material Actuation Through Droplet Evaporation27
Adaptive and Robust Switchable Adhesion System: Bio-Inspired Synergistic Integration from Octopuses and Geckos27
A Fast Online Elastic-Spine-Based Stiffness Adjusting Mechanism for Fishlike Swimming27
Topology Optimization and Prototype of a Multimaterial-Like Compliant Finger by Varying the Infill Density in 3D Printing26
Anguilliform Swimming Performance of an Eel-Inspired Soft Robot25
Bioinspired Multimodal Multipose Hybrid Fingers for Wide-Range Force, Compliant, and Stable Grasping25
Texture Discrimination with a Soft Biomimetic Finger Using a Flexible Neuromorphic Tactile Sensor Array That Provides Sensory Feedback25
Honeycomb Jamming: An Enabling Technology of Variable Stiffness Reconfiguration25
An Ambidextrous STarfish-Inspired Exploration and Reconnaissance Robot (The ASTER-bot)25
FluidicOscillation-BasedPneumaticActuationfor SoftLocomotionandGrasping24
A Human-Inspired Soft Finger with Dual-Mode Morphing Enabled by Variable Stiffness Mechanism24
Fast Thermal Actuators for Soft Robotics24
Piezo-Wormbots for Continuous Crawling23
The Walking Control of a Crab Biorobot in Amphibious Environment23
Acknowledgment of Reviewers 202323
Intentional Blocking Based Photoelectric Soft Pressure Sensor with High Sensitivity and Stability22
A Hybrid Anchoring Technology Composed of Reinforced Flexible Shells for a Knee Unloading Exosuit22
Nonlinear Dynamics Research of Ground Undulatory Fin Robot with Flexible Deformation and Frictional Contact22
Design of a Wearable Real-Time Hand Motion Tracking System Using an Array of Soft Polymer Acoustic Waveguides21
Acknowledgment of Reviewers 202421
Fluidic Multichambered Actuator and Multiaxis Intrinsic Force Sensing21
Armor-Based Stable Force Pneumatic Artificial Muscles for Steady Actuation Properties21
Spikebot: A Multigait Tensegrity Robot with Linearly Extending Struts21
Action Augmentation of Tactile Perception for Soft-Body Palpation21
MorphGI: A Self-Propelling Soft Robotic Endoscope Through Morphing Shape20
Single-Actuator Soft Robot for In-Pipe Crawling20
An Analysis of Peristaltic Locomotion for Maximizing Velocity or Minimizing Cost of Transport of Earthworm-Like Robots19
Biomimetic Closed-Loop Control of a Novel Soft Gastric Simulator Toward Emulating Antral Contraction Waves19
Scaling Up Soft Robotics: A Meter-Scale, Modular, and Reconfigurable Soft Robotic System19
Design and Feasibility Tests of a Lightweight Soft Gripper for Compliant and Flexible Envelope Grasping19
Harnessing the Multistability of Kresling Origami for Reconfigurable Articulation in Soft Robotic Arms19
Optimal Design of Electrode Topology of Dielectric Elastomer Actuators Based on the Parameterized Level Set Method19
Tuning the Morphology of Suction Discs to Enable Directional Adhesion for Locomotion in Wet Environments19
Facile Analytical Extraction of the Hyperelastic Constants for the Two-Parameter Mooney–Rivlin Model from Experiments on Soft Polymers19
Bioinspired Soft Electrostatic Accordion-Fold Actuators19
Miniaturized Circuitry for Capacitive Self-Sensing and Closed-Loop Control of Soft Electrostatic Transducers19
A Bioinspired Compliant 3D-Printed Soft Gripper18
Prescribing Cartesian Stiffness of Soft Robots by Co-Optimization of Shape and Segment-Level Stiffness18
Three-Fingered Soft Pneumatic Gripper Integrating Joint-Tuning Capability18
An Air Recirculation System Based on Bioinspired Soft Re-Air Valve for Highly Efficient Pneumatic Actuation18
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