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Soft Robotics and Applications

Last updated July 7, 2026

Rising Stars

New and hot

Rising Stars Researchers

1
Youcan Yan
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
2
Dylan Drotman
University of California San Diego
3
Costanza Armanini
Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics
4
S. M. Wu
Nanjing Forestry University
5
Yoonho Kim
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
6
Zhibin Li
Center for Drug Evaluation and Research
7
Jihong Zhu
University of York
8
Trevor J. Jones
Princeton University
9
Zhongda Sun
National University of Singapore
10
Amir Pagoli
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

Rising Stars Papers

1
A soft skin with self-decoupled three-axis force-sensing taxels
Nature Machine Intelligence|2024
54 cit.
2
Moving Toward Human‐Like Perception and Sensation Systems—From Integrated Intelligent Systems to Decentralized Smart Devices
SmartSys|2025
39 cit.
3
Do You Need a Hand? – A Bimanual Robotic Dressing Assistance Scheme
IEEE Transactions on Robotics|2024
33 cit.
4
A logistic-tent chaotic mapping Levenberg Marquardt algorithm for improving positioning accuracy of grinding robot
Scientific Reports|2024
23 cit.
5
Soft robotics for farm to fork: applications in agriculture & farming
Bioinspiration & Biomimetics|2024
20 cit.
6
A Soft Variable Stiffness Gripper with Magnetorheological Fluids for Robust and Reliable Grasping
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters|2024
19 cit.
7
A segmentation method for oral CBCT image based on Segment Anything Model and semi‐supervised teacher‐student model
Medical Physics|2025
6 cit.
8
Robotic Positioning Accuracy Enhancement via Memory Red Billed Blue Magpie Optimizer and Adaptive Momentum PSO Tuned Graph Neural Network
Machines|2025
4 cit.
9
Sharpbelly Fish Optimization Algorithm: A Bio-Inspired Metaheuristic for Complex Engineering
Biomimetics|2025
4 cit.
10
Research on Gas Pipeline Leakage Prediction Model Based on Physics-Aware GL-TransLSTM
Biomimetics|2025
4 cit.

Emerging Leaders

Gaining momentum

Emerging Leaders Researchers

1
Ruike Renee Zhao
Stanford University
2
Qi Ge
Jiangsu University
3
Rebecca Kramer‐Bottiglio
Yale University
4
Mark A. Hoepflinger
ETH Zurich
5
Hugo Rodrigue
Sungkyunkwan University
6
Federico Renda
Khalifa University of Science and Technology
7
Robert K. Katzschmann
Robotics Research (United States)
8
Yiğit Mengüç
Oregon State University
9
Huichan Zhao
Tsinghua University
10
Junwen Zhong
University of Macau

Emerging Leaders Papers

1
Soft robotic origami crawler
Science Advances|2022
421 cit.
2
Soft Robots Modeling: A Structured Overview
IEEE Transactions on Robotics|2023
297 cit.
3
Multi-environment robotic transitions through adaptive morphogenesis
Nature|2022
290 cit.
4
A pipeline inspection robot for navigating tubular environments in the sub-centimeter scale
Science Robotics|2022
282 cit.
5
Spinning-enabled wireless amphibious origami millirobot
Nature Communications|2022
268 cit.
6
An Overview of Soft Robotics
Annual Review of Control Robotics and Autonomous Systems|2022
238 cit.
7
Centrifugal multimaterial 3D printing of multifunctional heterogeneous objects
Nature Communications|2022
218 cit.
8
Multimaterial 3D printed self-locking thick-panel origami metamaterials
Nature Communications|2023
183 cit.
9
Highly conductive and stretchable nanostructured ionogels for 3D printing capacitive sensors with superior performance
Nature Communications|2024
165 cit.
10
Vision-controlled jetting for composite systems and robots
Nature|2023
126 cit.

Current Senior Leaders

Established & currently active

Current Senior Leaders Researchers

1
Robert J. Wood
Harvard University
2
Metin Sitti
Koç University
3
Daniela Rus
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
4
Ian D. Walker
University of Wyoming
5
Cecilia Laschi
National University of Singapore
6
Guang‐Zhong Yang
Shanghai Jiao Tong University
7
Conor J. Walsh
Harvard University
8
Mark W. Spong
Linköping University
9
Clément Gosselin
Université Laval
10
Paolo Dario
Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna

Current Senior Leaders Papers

1
Small-scale soft-bodied robot with multimodal locomotion
Nature|2018
2.3k cit.
2
Bilateral control of teleoperators with time delay
IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control|1989
2.1k cit.
3
An integrated design and fabrication strategy for entirely soft, autonomous robots
Nature|2016
2.1k cit.
4
LIO-SAM: Tightly-coupled Lidar Inertial Odometry via Smoothing and Mapping
Unknown Journal|2020
2k cit.
5
Singularity analysis of closed-loop kinematic chains
IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation|1990
1.7k cit.
6
Bilateral teleoperation: An historical survey
Automatica|2006
1.7k cit.
7
Modeling and Control of Elastic Joint Robots
Journal of Dynamic Systems Measurement and Control|1987
1.6k cit.
8
Soft robotic glove for combined assistance and at-home rehabilitation
Robotics and Autonomous Systems|2014
1.6k cit.
9
Adaptive motion control of rigid robots: A tutorial
Automatica|1989
1.2k cit.
10
Soft Robotics: Biological Inspiration, State of the Art, and Future Research
Applied Bionics and Biomechanics|2008
1.2k cit.

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