OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Science Robotics is 36. 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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
Robotic assistive technologies get more personal	974
Coherent, super-resolved radar beamforming using self-supervised learning	591
Culturally competent social robots target inclusion in Africa	431
Early science fiction got microbots surprisingly right	319
Ted Chiang imagines a computational theory of robots	277
The cold truth about robotics research in the United Kingdom as a Caribbean woman	274
The greatest challenge for prosthetics may be social, not neural, connections	239
Coordinated behavior of autonomous microscopic machines through local electronic pulse coupling	231
High-speed control and navigation for quadrupedal robots on complex and discrete terrain	196
Monte Carlo tree search with spectral expansion for planning with dynamical systems	191
The role of user preference in the customized control of robotic exoskeletons	184
Biohybrid microrobots regulate colonic cytokines and the epithelium barrier in inflammatory bowel disease	181
Shape morphing mechanical metamaterials through reversible plasticity	174
From motor control to team play in simulated humanoid football	173
Wireless flow-powered miniature robot capable of traversing tubular structures	161
Ajna: Generalized deep uncertainty for minimal perception on parsimonious robots	157
Morphological computation and decentralized learning in a swarm of sterically interacting robots	151
Adaptive active solids	149
Toward self-contained bidirectional bionic limbs with high information throughput	148
Embodied aerial physical interaction: Combining body and brain for robust interaction with unstructured environments	141
Accelerating discovery in natural science laboratories with AI and robotics: Perspectives and challenges	129
Modular reconfiguration of DNA origami assemblies using tile displacement	125
Wearable robots for the real world need vision	125
The neuromechanics of animal locomotion: From biology to robotics and back	123
Achieving animal endurance in robots through advanced energy storage	123

Crawling, climbing, perching, and flying by FiBa soft robots	118
Surmounting the ceiling effect of motor expertise by novel sensory experience with a hand exoskeleton	115
Remote control of muscle-driven miniature robots with battery-free wireless optoelectronics	112
Advancing physical intelligence for autonomous soft robots	109
Autonomous tracking of honey bee behaviors over long-term periods with cooperating robots	107
Virus-blocking mosquitoes take flight in the fight against dengue	106
Reversible kink instability drives ultrafast jumping in nematodes and soft robots	106
Optogenetic neuromuscular actuation of a miniature electronic biohybrid robot	102
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 .	102
Excitation of natural spinal reflex loops in the sensory-motor control of hand prostheses	100
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	97
Robotic manipulation of human bipedalism reveals overlapping internal representations of space and time	97
A bioinspired revolving-wing drone with passive attitude stability and efficient hovering flight	95
Robotically steerable guidewires—Current trends and future directions	94
Light-driven carbon nitride microswimmers with propulsion in biological and ionic media and responsive on-demand drug delivery	91
Magnetically actuated gearbox for the wireless control of millimeter-scale robots	88
The role of low-cost robots in the future of spaceflight	85
Representation granularity enables time-efficient autonomous exploration in large, complex worlds	85
A pipeline inspection robot for navigating tubular environments in the sub-centimeter scale	81
AI search, physician removal: Bronchoscopy robot bridges collaboration in foreign body aspiration	80
Neural prosthesis control restores near-normative neuromechanics in standing postural control	76
Learning garment manipulation policies toward robot-assisted dressing	76
Bioinspired designer DNA NanoGripper for virus sensing and potential inhibition	75
OpenExo: An open-source modular exoskeleton to augment human function	75
Understanding humanoid robots could save your life	74
Reconfigurable self-assembled DNA devices	74
Head-mounted surgical robots are an enabling technology for subretinal injections	73
Unlocking aerobatic potential of quadcopters: Autonomous freestyle flight generation and execution	73
High-tech guardians: Robotics at the heart of the Future Circular Collider	73
Assistive robotics should seamlessly integrate humans and robots	72
Ultralight, strong, and self-reprogrammable mechanical metamaterials	71
Effect of hip abduction assistance on metabolic cost and balance during human walking	71
Tracking and navigation of a microswarm under laser speckle contrast imaging for targeted delivery	68
Increasing the payload capacity of soft robot arms by localized stiffening	64
A robotic honeycomb for interaction with a honeybee colony	64
It is hard to be a robot in the wild	63
Would you risk humanity’s survival on a robot built in two years?	62
Autonomous boat navigation in the real world	61
Explosion-powered eversible tactile displays	61
Clearing away barriers to oral drug delivery	61
A hyperelastic torque-reversal mechanism for soft joints with compression-responsive transient bistability	59
Light-powered soft steam engines for self-adaptive oscillation and biomimetic swimming	59
Soft robotic artificial left ventricle simulator capable of reproducing myocardial biomechanics	59
Enhancing social connectedness with companion robots using AI	58
Teaching robots the art of human social synchrony	58
Autonomous surface sampling for the Europa Lander mission concept	57
AI-driven aerial robots advance whale research	56
Five years of Science Robotics	56
Magnetic robots make headway in medicine	55

The force has limits: Molecular motors in robotics	55
Tracking hand movements with a smart glove	55
RoboBallet: Planning for multirobot reaching with graph neural networks and reinforcement learning	54
How can educational robots enhance family life? Through careful integration	54
Development of compositionality through interactive learning of language and action of robots	54
Acrobatics at the insect scale: A durable, precise, and agile micro–aerial robot	53
Good old-fashioned engineering can close the 100,000-year “data gap” in robotics	51
Knowledge before faith is the motto of a robot pope	51
A review of learning-based dynamics models for robotic manipulation	50
How much initiative should a service robot have?	50
Bot self-destruction memes are no laughing matter in science fiction	49
Neuroprosthesis converts brain activity to speech	49
Float like a butterfly, swim like a biohybrid neuromuscular robot	49
An ingestible capsule for luminance-based diagnosis of mesenteric ischemia	49
Self-organizing nervous systems for robot swarms	48
Deep domain adaptation eliminates costly data required for task-agnostic wearable robotic control	47
Hexagonal electrohydraulic modules for rapidly reconfigurable high-speed robots	47
Surgical embodied intelligence for generalized task autonomy in laparoscopic robot-assisted surgery	47
Robotic manipulation of cardiomyocytes to identify gap junction modifiers for arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy	47
Estimating human joint moments unifies exoskeleton control, reducing user effort	46
Solar-powered shape-changing origami microfliers	45
Light-emitting, self-healing robotic fibers	44
Robot therapy pets get a starring role in Lightyear and in real life	44
Cooperative robotic exploration of a planetary skylight surface and lava cave	44
Bilateral Back Extensor Exosuit for multidimensional assistance and prevention of spinal injuries	43
User preference optimization for control of ankle exoskeletons using sample efficient active learning	43
A retrospective of Isaac Asimov at 102 and his Three Laws	42
Visual route following for tiny autonomous robots	41
Insect-inspired AI for autonomous robots	40
Equalizing access: How robotics and AI can transform surgical care worldwide	40
Biohybrid hand actuated by multiple human muscle tissues	39
Dexterous helical magnetic robot for improved endovascular access	39
Remote magnetic navigation enables precision telesurgery	39
Attention-based map encoding for learning generalized legged locomotion	38
Microscopic robots with onboard digital control	38
Erratum for the Research Article “Fully neuromorphic vision and control for autonomous drone flight” by F. Paredes-Vallés et al .	37
Animal robots in the African wilderness: Lessons learned and outlook for field robotics	37
The original “I, Robot” featured a murderous robot and the Frankenstein complex	37
Restoration of tactile sensation in bionic hands	36
Preventing pressure ulcers by increasing pressure: An unorthodox alternating-pressure mattress	36