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Biomimetic flight and propulsion mechanisms

Last updated July 7, 2026

Rising Stars

New and hot

Rising Stars Researchers

1
William R. T. Roderick
Stanford University
2
Keel Yong Lee
Harvard University
3
Zhijian Ren
Medical Center Hospital
4
Raphael Zufferey
Imperial College London
5
Yanran Ding
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
6
Yi Zhu
Westlake University
7
Di Chen
Chinese Academy of Sciences
8
Dong Zhang
Harbin Engineering University
9
I Made Aswin Nahrendra
Robotics Research (United States)
10
Yinding Chi
University of Pennsylvania

Rising Stars Papers

1
Magnetic kirigami dome metasheet with high deformability and stiffness for adaptive dynamic shape-shifting and multimodal manipulation
Science Advances|2024
22 cit.
2
Design and Analysis of a Novel Bionic Tensegrity Robotic Fish with a Continuum Body
Biomimetics|2024
18 cit.
3
Making light work: designing plasmonic structures for the selective photothermal methanation of carbon dioxide
EES Catalysis|2024
17 cit.
4
Intermittent swimmers optimize energy expenditure with flick-to-flick motor control
Journal of Fluid Mechanics|2025
13 cit.
5
Efficient separation of Cd2+ and Pb2+ by Tetradesmus obliquus: Insights from cultivation conditions with competitive adsorption modeling
Journal of Water Process Engineering|2024
8 cit.
6
Machine learning-based maximum pipeline pitting corrosion depth prediction using hybrid FVIM-BNN-XGB model
Engineering Failure Analysis|2025
7 cit.
7
Research on the development of an intelligent prediction model for blood pressure variability during hemodialysis
BMC Nephrology|2025
6 cit.
8
Biohybrid actuators in robotics: recent trends and future perspectives of skeletal and cardiac muscle integration
npj Robotics|2025
4 cit.
9
Geometrically Templated, Ultra‐Lightweight and High Strength Soap Films from Lyotropic Liquid Crystalline Graphene Oxide/Polymer Composites
Advanced Functional Materials|2025
1 cit.
10
Contact Sensing via Joint Torque Sensors and a Force/Torque Sensor for Legged Robots
Unknown Journal|2025
1 cit.

Emerging Leaders

Gaining momentum

Emerging Leaders Researchers

1
Shirley Park
Kaiser Permanente Santa Clara Medical Center
2
Daniel Quinn
Princeton University
3
Yudong Xie
Zhoukou City Academy of Agricultural Sciences
4
Arman Hemmati
University of Alberta
5
Sawyer B. Fuller
Harvard University
6
Daniel J. Klein
TU Wien
7
Kanae Hamaguchi
Toyota Central Research and Development Laboratories (Japan)
8
Mostafa Hassanalian
New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
9
Shane P. Windsor
University of Bristol
10
Dong Xue
Northwestern Polytechnical University

Emerging Leaders Papers

1
Synchronization of angular velocities of chaotic leader-follower satellites using a novel integral terminal sliding mode controller
Aerospace Science and Technology|2024
35 cit.
2
A gyroscope-free visual-inertial flight control and wind sensing system for 10-mg robots
Science Robotics|2022
33 cit.
3
An advanced rigid-flexible hybrid assembly deviation analysis method for aerostructures
Advanced Engineering Informatics|2023
25 cit.
4
Takeoff of a 2.1 g Fully Untethered Tailless Flapping-Wing Micro Aerial Vehicle With Integrated Battery
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters|2023
24 cit.
5
Golden wheel spider-inspired rolling robots for planetary exploration
Acta Astronautica|2022
22 cit.
6
Reliability-based robust optimization design for tolerance of aerospace thin-walled components based on surrogate model
Advanced Engineering Informatics|2024
20 cit.
7
Characterization of bifurcated dual vortex streets in the wake of an oscillating foil
Journal of Fluid Mechanics|2022
19 cit.
8
Sim-to-Real Transfer for Fixed-Wing Uncrewed Aerial Vehicle: Pitch Control by High-Fidelity Modelling and Domain Randomization
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters|2022
19 cit.
9
HPVsim: An agent-based model of HPV transmission and cervical disease
PLoS Computational Biology|2024
19 cit.
10
Effects of hydrofoil motion parameters and swing arm parameters on power extraction of a flexible hydrofoil in swing arm mode
Ocean Engineering|2022
18 cit.

Current Senior Leaders

Established & currently active

Current Senior Leaders Researchers

1
George Lauder
Harvard University
2
Michael H. Dickinson
California Institute of Technology
3
Robert J. Wood
Harvard University
4
Michael S. Triantafyllou
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
5
Adrian L. R. Thomas
University of Calicut
6
Hao Liu
Chiba University
7
Andrew A. Biewener
Evolutionary Genomics (United States)
8
Mao Sun
Shandong University of Technology
9
Alexander J. Smits
Princeton University
10
Sanjay P. Sane
National Centre for Biological Sciences

Current Senior Leaders Papers

1
Wing Rotation and the Aerodynamic Basis of Insect Flight
Science|1999
2.6k cit.
2
An integrated design and fabrication strategy for entirely soft, autonomous robots
Nature|2016
2.1k cit.
3
Leading-edge vortices in insect flight
Nature|1996
1.7k cit.
4
Oscillating foils of high propulsive efficiency
Journal of Fluid Mechanics|1998
1.3k cit.
5
Controlled Flight of a Biologically Inspired, Insect-Scale Robot
Science|2013
1.1k cit.
6
A 3D-printed, functionally graded soft robot powered by combustion
Science|2015
1k cit.
7
An Efficient Swimming Machine
Scientific American|1995
999 cit.
8
Flying and swimming animals cruise at a Strouhal number tuned for high power efficiency
Nature|2003
972 cit.
9
Recent progress in flapping wing aerodynamics and aeroelasticity
Progress in Aerospace Sciences|2010
967 cit.
10
A method for building self-folding machines
Science|2014
956 cit.

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