OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Science Robotics is 60. 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.)

Article	Citations
High-speed control and navigation for quadrupedal robots on complex and discrete terrain	745
The cold truth about robotics research in the United Kingdom as a Caribbean woman	468
The greatest challenge for prosthetics may be social, not neural, connections	346
Ted Chiang imagines a computational theory of robots	333
From motor control to team play in simulated humanoid football	304
Robotic assistive technologies get more personal	270
Early science fiction got microbots surprisingly right	250
Coherent, super-resolved radar beamforming using self-supervised learning	222
Morphological computation and decentralized learning in a swarm of sterically interacting robots	213
Ajna: Generalized deep uncertainty for minimal perception on parsimonious robots	205
Coordinated behavior of autonomous microscopic machines through local electronic pulse coupling	202
Monte Carlo tree search with spectral expansion for planning with dynamical systems	164
The role of user preference in the customized control of robotic exoskeletons	163
By the time we build robots that care for us, will we be able to care for them?	157
Biohybrid microrobots regulate colonic cytokines and the epithelium barrier in inflammatory bowel disease	150
Culturally competent social robots target inclusion in Africa	145
Shape morphing mechanical metamaterials through reversible plasticity	142
Wireless flow-powered miniature robot capable of traversing tubular structures	141
Autonomous tracking of honey bee behaviors over long-term periods with cooperating robots	136
Wearable robots for the real world need vision	131
Reversible kink instability drives ultrafast jumping in nematodes and soft robots	128
Advancing physical intelligence for autonomous soft robots	128
Adaptive active solids	128
Embodied aerial physical interaction: Combining body and brain for robust interaction with unstructured environments	125
Crawling, climbing, perching, and flying by FiBa soft robots	114

Achieving animal endurance in robots through advanced energy storage	113
Toward self-contained bidirectional bionic limbs with high information throughput	110
Surmounting the ceiling effect of motor expertise by novel sensory experience with a hand exoskeleton	109
Neglected physical human-robot interaction may explain variable outcomes in gait neurorehabilitation research	109
Modular reconfiguration of DNA origami assemblies using tile displacement	108
Soft robotic steerable microcatheter for the endovascular treatment of cerebral disorders	105
The neuromechanics of animal locomotion: From biology to robotics and back	104
Remote control of muscle-driven miniature robots with battery-free wireless optoelectronics	102
Excitation of natural spinal reflex loops in the sensory-motor control of hand prostheses	98
Merging motoneuron and postural synergies in prosthetic hand design for natural bionic interfacing	98
MOGrip: Gripper for multiobject grasping in pick-and-place tasks using translational movements of fingers	96
Erratum for the Research Article “Restoration of grasping in an upper limb amputee using the myokinetic prosthesis with implanted magnets” by M. Gherardini et al .	93
Virus-blocking mosquitoes take flight in the fight against dengue	93
A bioinspired revolving-wing drone with passive attitude stability and efficient hovering flight	90
Neural prosthesis control restores near-normative neuromechanics in standing postural control	86
Magnetically actuated gearbox for the wireless control of millimeter-scale robots	85
The role of low-cost robots in the future of spaceflight	85
AI search, physician removal: Bronchoscopy robot bridges collaboration in foreign body aspiration	82
A pipeline inspection robot for navigating tubular environments in the sub-centimeter scale	81
A sound approach to improving exoskeletons and exosuits	80
Light-driven carbon nitride microswimmers with propulsion in biological and ionic media and responsive on-demand drug delivery	80
Representation granularity enables time-efficient autonomous exploration in large, complex worlds	80
Reconfigurable self-assembled DNA devices	77
Unlocking aerobatic potential of quadcopters: Autonomous freestyle flight generation and execution	76
Understanding humanoid robots could save your life	75
OpenExo: An open-source modular exoskeleton to augment human function	72
Effect of hip abduction assistance on metabolic cost and balance during human walking	71
A robotic honeycomb for interaction with a honeybee colony	70
Bioinspired designer DNA NanoGripper for virus sensing and potential inhibition	68
Assistive robotics should seamlessly integrate humans and robots	66
High-tech guardians: Robotics at the heart of the Future Circular Collider	66
Head-mounted surgical robots are an enabling technology for subretinal injections	64
Abyssal Benthic Rover, an autonomous vehicle for long-term monitoring of deep-ocean processes	62
Learning garment manipulation policies toward robot-assisted dressing	62
Increasing the payload capacity of soft robot arms by localized stiffening	61