OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Science Robotics is 62. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Culturally competent social robots target inclusion in Africa	612
A fictional history of robotics features forgotten real-world robots	419
From motor control to team play in simulated humanoid football	298
Co-designing hardware and control for robot hands	277
Cooperative cargo transportation by a swarm of molecular machines	272
SimPLE, a visuotactile method learned in simulation to precisely pick, localize, regrasp, and place objects	222
Upgrading and extending the life cycle of soft robots with in situ free-form liquid three-dimensional printing	216
Designing a robot to recover a sunken submarine is hard	208
The case against machine vision for the control of wearable robotics: Challenges for commercial adoption	197
Toward three-dimensional DNA industrial nanorobots	196
Teaching a single-arm robot to fold towels	184
Coherent, super-resolved radar beamforming using self-supervised learning	180
Do we really want AI to be human-like?	170
Float like a butterfly, swim like a biohybrid neuromuscular robot	167
Machine learning, robots, and abuse of power	146
Ajna: Generalized deep uncertainty for minimal perception on parsimonious robots	142
The AI Act Grand Challenge shows how autonomous robots will be regulated	138
Unraveling DNA inspires artificial muscle	136
By the time we build robots that care for us, will we be able to care for them?	127
The jig is up for small soft machines	127
Bot self-destruction memes are no laughing matter in science fiction	126
Robotic manipulation of cardiomyocytes to identify gap junction modifiers for arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy	125
Ted Chiang imagines a computational theory of robots	123
Persuasive robots should avoid authority: The effects of formal and real authority on persuasion in human-robot interaction	121
Would robots really bother with a bloody uprising?	113

Engineering and surgical advancements enable more cognitively integrated bionic arms	113
Toward stronger artificial muscles	110
Wild Tech: Exploring South Africa’s unique robotics landscape	109
Robotic assistive technologies get more personal	108
Brief exosuit use improves post-stroke gait	105
A seasonally invariant deep transform for visual terrain-relative navigation	104
Early science fiction got microbots surprisingly right	104
Secure and secret cooperation in robot swarms	103
Robot pack mules remain science fiction for now	103
“Robots for good”: Ten defining questions	101
Overcoming the challenges that women in robotics face	101
Stretchable Arduinos embedded in soft robots	100
Bridging hard and soft: Mechanical metamaterials enable rigid torque transmission in soft robots	98
Harnessing AI and robotics in humanitarian assistance and disaster response	95
Tactile sensors need a greater sense of purpose	93
From individual robots to robot societies	92
Hexagonal electrohydraulic modules for rapidly reconfigurable high-speed robots	90
Using robots to advance clinical translation in neurorehabilitation	89
How much initiative should a service robot have?	86
Self-organizing nervous systems for robot swarms	85
Electronics-free soft robot has a nice ring to it	84
Preclinical upper limb neurorobotic platform to assess, rehabilitate, and develop therapies	83
Reinforcement learning–based framework for whale rendezvous via autonomous sensing robots	82
Coordinated behavior of autonomous microscopic machines through local electronic pulse coupling	81
Microsaccade-inspired event camera for robotics	80
The cold truth about robotics research in the United Kingdom as a Caribbean woman	79
Monte Carlo tree search with spectral expansion for planning with dynamical systems	78
Accelerating the pace of innovation in robotics by fostering diversity and inclusive leadership	75
A gyroscope-free visual-inertial flight control and wind sensing system for 10-mg robots	75
Social robots as conversational catalysts: Enhancing long-term human-human interaction at home	74
Virtual elasto-plastic robot compliance to active environments	74
Upscaling the production of sterile male mosquitoes with an automated pupa sex sorter	71
Toward next-generation learned robot manipulation	70
Reaching the limit in autonomous racing: Optimal control versus reinforcement learning	69
High-resolution outdoor videography of insects using Fast Lock-On tracking	66
Biohybrid microrobots regulate colonic cytokines and the epithelium barrier in inflammatory bowel disease	64
The role of user preference in the customized control of robotic exoskeletons	63
Magnetically actuated dexterous tools for minimally invasive operation inside the brain	62