OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Science Robotics is 61. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Ajna: Generalized deep uncertainty for minimal perception on parsimonious robots	641
Early science fiction got microbots surprisingly right	430
Coherent, super-resolved radar beamforming using self-supervised learning	312
Coordinated behavior of autonomous microscopic machines through local electronic pulse coupling	288
The cold truth about robotics research in the United Kingdom as a Caribbean woman	283
Monte Carlo tree search with spectral expansion for planning with dynamical systems	231
The role of user preference in the customized control of robotic exoskeletons	221
Robotic assistive technologies get more personal	198
By the time we build robots that care for us, will we be able to care for them?	188
Ted Chiang imagines a computational theory of robots	186
Culturally competent social robots target inclusion in Africa	176
From motor control to team play in simulated humanoid football	174
From individual robots to robot societies	146
Morphological computation and decentralized learning in a swarm of sterically interacting robots	146
Biohybrid microrobots regulate colonic cytokines and the epithelium barrier in inflammatory bowel disease	144
Wireless flow-powered miniature robot capable of traversing tubular structures	144
Toward a living soft microrobot through optogenetic locomotion control of Caenorhabditis elegans	133
Shape morphing mechanical metamaterials through reversible plasticity	133
Toward self-contained bidirectional bionic limbs with high information throughput	132
Complex manipulation with a simple robotic hand through contact breaking and caging	128
Surmounting the ceiling effect of motor expertise by novel sensory experience with a hand exoskeleton	124
Autonomous tracking of honey bee behaviors over long-term periods with cooperating robots	117
Crawling, climbing, perching, and flying by FiBa soft robots	116
Reversible kink instability drives ultrafast jumping in nematodes and soft robots	112
Neglected physical human-robot interaction may explain variable outcomes in gait neurorehabilitation research	112

Wearable robots for the real world need vision	111
The neuromechanics of animal locomotion: From biology to robotics and back	111
Modular reconfiguration of DNA origami assemblies using tile displacement	111
Soft robotic steerable microcatheter for the endovascular treatment of cerebral disorders	109
Adaptive active solids	105
Achieving animal endurance in robots through advanced energy storage	104
Remote control of muscle-driven miniature robots with battery-free wireless optoelectronics	101
The role of low-cost robots in the future of spaceflight	101
Magnetically actuated gearbox for the wireless control of millimeter-scale robots	99
Representation granularity enables time-efficient autonomous exploration in large, complex worlds	98
MOGrip: Gripper for multiobject grasping in pick-and-place tasks using translational movements of fingers	97
Virus-blocking mosquitoes take flight in the fight against dengue	95
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 .	94
Excitation of natural spinal reflex loops in the sensory-motor control of hand prostheses	91
Light-driven carbon nitride microswimmers with propulsion in biological and ionic media and responsive on-demand drug delivery	90
Neural prosthesis control restores near-normative neuromechanics in standing postural control	89
A pipeline inspection robot for navigating tubular environments in the sub-centimeter scale	85
A bioinspired revolving-wing drone with passive attitude stability and efficient hovering flight	85
Merging motoneuron and postural synergies in prosthetic hand design for natural bionic interfacing	84
Reconfigurable self-assembled DNA devices	82
Seeing through the forest and the trees with drones	80
Stealthy tracking of deep ocean organisms with Mesobot	78
A sound approach to improving exoskeletons and exosuits	76
High-tech guardians: Robotics at the heart of the Future Circular Collider	75
Effect of hip abduction assistance on metabolic cost and balance during human walking	74
Learning garment manipulation policies toward robot-assisted dressing	71
Assistive robotics should seamlessly integrate humans and robots	70
Abyssal Benthic Rover, an autonomous vehicle for long-term monitoring of deep-ocean processes	67
Unlocking aerobatic potential of quadcopters: Autonomous freestyle flight generation and execution	67
Head-mounted surgical robots are an enabling technology for subretinal injections	66
Understanding humanoid robots could save your life	65
Ultralight, strong, and self-reprogrammable mechanical metamaterials	64
Increasing the payload capacity of soft robot arms by localized stiffening	63
Tracking and navigation of a microswarm under laser speckle contrast imaging for targeted delivery	61
A decade retrospective of medical robotics research from 2010 to 2020	61
A robotic honeycomb for interaction with a honeybee colony	61
Bioinspired designer DNA NanoGripper for virus sensing and potential inhibition	61