OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Science Robotics is 33. 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
Merging motoneuron and postural synergies in prosthetic hand design for natural bionic interfacing	98
Excitation of natural spinal reflex loops in the sensory-motor control of hand prostheses	98
MOGrip: Gripper for multiobject grasping in pick-and-place tasks using translational movements of fingers	96
Virus-blocking mosquitoes take flight in the fight against dengue	93
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
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
The role of low-cost robots in the future of spaceflight	85
Magnetically actuated gearbox for the wireless control of millimeter-scale robots	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
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
A sound approach to improving exoskeletons and exosuits	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
A decade retrospective of medical robotics research from 2010 to 2020	59
Tracking and navigation of a microswarm under laser speckle contrast imaging for targeted delivery	59
Ultralight, strong, and self-reprogrammable mechanical metamaterials	57
Soft robotic artificial left ventricle simulator capable of reproducing myocardial biomechanics	56
Autonomous boat navigation in the real world	56
Would you risk humanity’s survival on a robot built in two years?	55
Learning high-speed flight in the wild	55
Teaching robots the art of human social synchrony	54
Tunable stiffness enables fast and efficient swimming in fish-like robots	54
A hyperelastic torque-reversal mechanism for soft joints with compression-responsive transient bistability	53
Clearing away barriers to oral drug delivery	53
Enhancing social connectedness with companion robots using AI	52
A meta-analysis on the effectiveness of anthropomorphism in human-robot interaction	52
Robotic end-to-end fusion of microtubules powered by kinesin	50
It is hard to be a robot in the wild	50

Light-powered soft steam engines for self-adaptive oscillation and biomimetic swimming	50
AI-driven aerial robots advance whale research	50
Autonomous surface sampling for the Europa Lander mission concept	49
The force has limits: Molecular motors in robotics	48
Magnetic robots make headway in medicine	47
Tracking hand movements with a smart glove	46
Acrobatics at the insect scale: A durable, precise, and agile micro–aerial robot	46
Five years of Science Robotics	45
Development of compositionality through interactive learning of language and action of robots	44
Visual-inertial hand motion tracking with robustness against occlusion, interference, and contact	44
Surgical embodied intelligence for generalized task autonomy in laparoscopic robot-assisted surgery	43
Hexagonal electrohydraulic modules for rapidly reconfigurable high-speed robots	42
Estimating human joint moments unifies exoskeleton control, reducing user effort	42
Bot self-destruction memes are no laughing matter in science fiction	42
Knowledge before faith is the motto of a robot pope	42
Neuroprosthesis converts brain activity to speech	41
How much initiative should a service robot have?	41
Self-organizing nervous systems for robot swarms	41
Float like a butterfly, swim like a biohybrid neuromuscular robot	40
Robotic manipulation of cardiomyocytes to identify gap junction modifiers for arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy	39
Equalizing access: How robotics and AI can transform surgical care worldwide	39
Solar-powered shape-changing origami microfliers	39
Bilateral Back Extensor Exosuit for multidimensional assistance and prevention of spinal injuries	38
Insect-inspired AI for autonomous robots	38
User preference optimization for control of ankle exoskeletons using sample efficient active learning	38
A retrospective of Isaac Asimov at 102 and his Three Laws	38
Visual route following for tiny autonomous robots	37
Light-emitting, self-healing robotic fibers	36
Robot therapy pets get a starring role in Lightyear and in real life	35
Biohybrid hand actuated by multiple human muscle tissues	35
Remote magnetic navigation enables precision telesurgery	35
Microscopic robots with onboard digital control	34
Emergence of robust self-organized undulatory swimming based on local hydrodynamic force sensing	34
Dexterous helical magnetic robot for improved endovascular access	34
Erratum for the Research Article “Fully neuromorphic vision and control for autonomous drone flight” by F. Paredes-Vallés et al .	33
Restoration of tactile sensation in bionic hands	33
The original “I, Robot” featured a murderous robot and the Frankenstein complex	33
Preventing pressure ulcers by increasing pressure: An unorthodox alternating-pressure mattress	33