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 2021-05-01 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

The neuromechanics of animal locomotion: From biology to robotics and back	111
Modular reconfiguration of DNA origami assemblies using tile displacement	111
Wearable robots for the real world need vision	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
The role of low-cost robots in the future of spaceflight	101
Remote control of muscle-driven miniature robots with battery-free wireless optoelectronics	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
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
Tracking and navigation of a microswarm under laser speckle contrast imaging for targeted delivery	61
A hyperelastic torque-reversal mechanism for soft joints with compression-responsive transient bistability	60
Autonomous boat navigation in the real world	59
Would you risk humanity’s survival on a robot built in two years?	59
Teaching robots the art of human social synchrony	59
Clearing away barriers to oral drug delivery	58
Soft robotic artificial left ventricle simulator capable of reproducing myocardial biomechanics	55
It is hard to be a robot in the wild	54
Tunable stiffness enables fast and efficient swimming in fish-like robots	53
Learning high-speed flight in the wild	53
Light-powered soft steam engines for self-adaptive oscillation and biomimetic swimming	52
Enhancing social connectedness with companion robots using AI	51
Tracking hand movements with a smart glove	49
A meta-analysis on the effectiveness of anthropomorphism in human-robot interaction	49

Five years of Science Robotics	47
Magnetic robots make headway in medicine	47
Robotic end-to-end fusion of microtubules powered by kinesin	47
The force has limits: Molecular motors in robotics	47
AI-driven aerial robots advance whale research	46
Learning where to trust unreliable models in an unstructured world for deformable object manipulation	46
Development of compositionality through interactive learning of language and action of robots	46
Acrobatics at the insect scale: A durable, precise, and agile micro–aerial robot	46
Robotic manipulation of cardiomyocytes to identify gap junction modifiers for arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy	45
Visual-inertial hand motion tracking with robustness against occlusion, interference, and contact	45
Bot self-destruction memes are no laughing matter in science fiction	45
Float like a butterfly, swim like a biohybrid neuromuscular robot	44
Self-organizing nervous systems for robot swarms	43
Solar-powered shape-changing origami microfliers	42
How much initiative should a service robot have?	42
A retrospective of Isaac Asimov at 102 and his Three Laws	41
Estimating human joint moments unifies exoskeleton control, reducing user effort	41
Robot therapy pets get a starring role in Lightyear and in real life	41
Hexagonal electrohydraulic modules for rapidly reconfigurable high-speed robots	41
Visual route following for tiny autonomous robots	40
Light-emitting, self-healing robotic fibers	40
Remote magnetic navigation enables precision telesurgery	39
User preference optimization for control of ankle exoskeletons using sample efficient active learning	39
Biohybrid hand actuated by multiple human muscle tissues	39
Insect-inspired AI for autonomous robots	38
Time-optimal planning for quadrotor waypoint flight	38
Microscopic robots with onboard digital control	38
Bilateral Back Extensor Exosuit for multidimensional assistance and prevention of spinal injuries	38
The original “I, Robot” featured a murderous robot and the Frankenstein complex	37
Dexterous helical magnetic robot for improved endovascular access	37
Neuromorphic sequence learning with an event camera on routes through vegetation	35
Animal robots in the African wilderness: Lessons learned and outlook for field robotics	35
Robots have grasped and manipulated the imagination since 1839	35
Restoration of tactile sensation in bionic hands	35
Erratum for the Research Article “Fully neuromorphic vision and control for autonomous drone flight” by F. Paredes-Vallés et al .	35
Emergence of robust self-organized undulatory swimming based on local hydrodynamic force sensing	33