| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Micro/nanorobots for biomedicine: Delivery, surgery, sensing, and detoxification | Science Robotics | 2017 | 1,018 |
| 2 | Soft robotics: Technologies and systems pushing the boundaries of robot abilities | Science Robotics | 2016 | 987 |
| 3 | XAI—Explainable artificial intelligence | Science Robotics | 2019 | 829 |
| 4 | The grand challenges of Science Robotics | Science Robotics | 2018 | 787 |
| 5 | Social robots for education: A review | Science Robotics | 2018 | 750 |
| 6 | Ferromagnetic soft continuum robots | Science Robotics | 2019 | 698 |
| 7 | Learning agile and dynamic motor skills for legged robots | Science Robotics | 2019 | 664 |
| 8 | Optoelectronically innervated soft prosthetic hand via stretchable optical waveguides | Science Robotics | 2016 | 619 |
| 9 | A soft robot that navigates its environment through growth | Science Robotics | 2017 | 603 |
| 10 | Multifunctional biohybrid magnetite microrobots for imaging-guided therapy | Science Robotics | 2017 | 594 |
| 11 | A highly sensitive, self-powered triboelectric auditory sensor for social robotics and hearing aids | Science Robotics | 2018 | 573 |
| 12 | A hierarchically patterned, bioinspired e-skin able to detect the direction of applied pressure for robotics | Science Robotics | 2018 | 568 |
| 13 | Exploration of underwater life with an acoustically controlled soft robotic fish | Science Robotics | 2018 | 489 |
| 14 | Reconfigurable magnetic microrobot swarm: Multimode transformation, locomotion, and manipulation | Science Robotics | 2019 | 459 |
| 15 | Bioinspired living structural color hydrogels | Science Robotics | 2018 | 444 |
| 16 | Millimeter-scale flexible robots with programmable three-dimensional magnetization and motions | Science Robotics | 2019 | 443 |
| 17 | Learning quadrupedal locomotion over challenging terrain | Science Robotics | 2020 | 432 |
| 18 | Soft wall-climbing robots | Science Robotics | 2018 | 419 |
| 19 | Kirigami skins make a simple soft actuator crawl | Science Robotics | 2018 | 409 |
| 20 | Combating COVID-19—The role of robotics in managing public health and infectious diseases | Science Robotics | 2020 | 393 |
| 21 | Human-in-the-loop optimization of hip assistance with a soft exosuit during walking | Science Robotics | 2018 | 387 |
| 22 | Biofuel-powered soft electronic skin with multiplexed and wireless sensing for human-machine interfaces | Science Robotics | 2020 | 385 |
| 23 | Soft robot perception using embedded soft sensors and recurrent neural networks | Science Robotics | 2019 | 383 |
| 24 | Self-healing soft pneumatic robots | Science Robotics | 2017 | 359 |
| 25 | Medical robotics—Regulatory, ethical, and legal considerations for increasing levels of autonomy | Science Robotics | 2017 | 349 |
| 26 | Electronic skins and machine learning for intelligent soft robots | Science Robotics | 2020 | 339 |
| 27 | Peano-HASEL actuators: Muscle-mimetic, electrohydraulic transducers that linearly contract on activation | Science Robotics | 2018 | 336 |
| 28 | Biohybrid actuators for robotics: A review of devices actuated by living cells | Science Robotics | 2017 | 334 |
| 29 | A microrobotic system guided by photoacoustic computed tomography for targeted navigation in intestines in vivo | Science Robotics | 2019 | 321 |
| 30 | Learning ambidextrous robot grasping policies | Science Robotics | 2019 | 321 |
| 31 | A soft, bistable valve for autonomous control of soft actuators | Science Robotics | 2018 | 316 |
| 32 | Hygrobot: A self-locomotive ratcheted actuator powered by environmental humidity | Science Robotics | 2018 | 307 |
| 33 | Optimized flocking of autonomous drones in confined environments | Science Robotics | 2018 | 304 |
| 34 | An autonomous untethered fast soft robotic insect driven by low-voltage dielectric elastomer actuators | Science Robotics | 2019 | 295 |
| 35 | Development of a magnetic microrobot for carrying and delivering targeted cells | Science Robotics | 2018 | 290 |
| 36 | Assistance magnitude versus metabolic cost reductions for a tethered multiarticular soft exosuit | Science Robotics | 2017 | 285 |
| 37 | Insect-scale fast moving and ultrarobust soft robot | Science Robotics | 2019 | 282 |
| 38 | Soft erythrocyte-based bacterial microswimmers for cargo delivery | Science Robotics | 2018 | 280 |
| 39 | Prosthesis with neuromorphic multilayered e-dermis perceives touch and pain | Science Robotics | 2018 | 280 |
| 40 | Untethered soft robotic matter with passive control of shape morphing and propulsion | Science Robotics | 2019 | 268 |
| 41 | Soft phototactic swimmer based on self-sustained hydrogel oscillator | Science Robotics | 2019 | 258 |
| 42 | Robotic vertical jumping agility via series-elastic power modulation | Science Robotics | 2016 | 257 |
| 43 | New soft robots really suck: Vacuum-powered systems empower diverse capabilities | Science Robotics | 2017 | 253 |
| 44 | Magnetically actuated microrobots as a platform for stem cell transplantation | Science Robotics | 2019 | 247 |
| 45 | Biomimetic sensory feedback through peripheral nerve stimulation improves dexterous use of a bionic hand | Science Robotics | 2019 | 244 |
| 46 | Enzyme-powered Janus platelet cell robots for active and targeted drug delivery | Science Robotics | 2020 | 236 |
| 47 | Multifunctional surface microrollers for targeted cargo delivery in physiological blood flow | Science Robotics | 2020 | 234 |
| 48 | Translucent soft robots driven by frameless fluid electrode dielectric elastomer actuators | Science Robotics | 2018 | 229 |
| 49 | Noninvasive neuroimaging enhances continuous neural tracking for robotic device control | Science Robotics | 2019 | 227 |
| 50 | Dual-responsive biohybrid neutrobots for active target delivery | Science Robotics | 2021 | 227 |
