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Frontiers in Robotics and AI is a peer-reviewed journal published by Frontiers, covering Social Robot Interaction and HRI, Soft Robotics and Applications, Robot Manipulation and Learning. Over its lifetime it has published 2,480 papers, which have received 52,170 citations.

PublisherFrontiers
Reference styleAuthor–year (Harvard)
Author–year — (Smith, 2023) in the text
Smith, A., Jones, B. and Lee, C. (2023) 'A representative article title', Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 12(3), pp. 45–58.

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Publishes research inSocial Robot Interaction and HRI Soft Robotics and Applications Robot Manipulation and Learning Modular Robots and Swarm Intelligence Prosthetics and Rehabilitation Robotics
ISSN2296-9144
Citation impact (2-yr)4.08
h-index92
i10-index1,141
Article processing charge$1,900
Open accessYes — indexed in DOAJ
Top institutions publishing hereItalian Institute of Technology
Journal websitewww.frontiersin.org
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Papers published in Frontiers in Robotics and AI per year

20
2014
34
2015
80
2016
73
2017
139
2018
145
2019
213
2020
411
2021
395
2022
244
2023
262
2024
286
2025

Citation impact of Frontiers in Robotics and AI by publication year

1.1K
2014
1.6K
2015
5.7K
2016
3K
2017
7.7K
2018
5K
2019
7.3K
2020
9.3K
2021
5.6K
2022
2.4K
2023
2K
2024
710
2025

Citations each year’s papers have accumulated so far — the most recent years are still building up.

Most-cited papers in Frontiers in Robotics and AI

Enhancing Our Lives with Immersive Virtual Reality

Mel Slater, María V. Sánchez-Vives · 19 Dec 2016

Virtual reality (VR) started about 50 years ago in a form we would recognize today [stereo head-mounted display (HMD), head tracking, computer graphics generated images] – although the hardware was completely different. In the 1980s and 1990s, VR emerged again based on a different generation of hardware (e.g., CRT displays rather than vector refresh, electromagnetic…

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Soft Manipulators and Grippers: A Review

Josie Hughes, Utku Çulha, Fabio Giardina et al. · 16 Nov 2016

Soft robotics is a growing area of research which utilises the compliance and adaptability of soft structures to develop highly adaptive robotics for soft interactions. One area in which soft robotics has the ability to make significant impact is in the development of soft grippers and manipulators. With an increased requirement for automation, robotics systems…

A Review of Human Activity Recognition Methods

Michalis Vrigkas, Christophoros Nikou, Ioannis A. Kakadiaris · 16 Nov 2015

Recognizing human activities from video sequences or still images is a challenging task due to problems such as background clutter, partial occlusion, changes in scale, viewpoint, lighting, and appearance. Many applications, including video surveillance systems, human-computer interaction, and robotics for human behavior characterization, require a multiple activity recognition system. In this work, we provide a…

Avatar Embodiment. Towards a Standardized Questionnaire

Mar González-Franco, Tabitha C. Peck · 22 Jun 2018

Inside virtual reality, users can embody avatars that are collocated from a first-person perspective. When doing so, participants have the feeling that the own body has been substituted by the self-avatar, and that the new body is the source of the sensations. Embodiment is complex as it includes not only body ownership over the avatar,…

Quality Diversity: A New Frontier for Evolutionary Computation

Justin K. Pugh, L. B. Soros, Kenneth O. Stanley · 12 Jul 2016

While evolutionary computation and evolutionary robotics take inspiration from nature, they have long focused mainly on problems of performance optimization. Yet evolution in nature can be interpreted as more nuanced than a process of simple optimization. In particular, natural evolution is a divergent search that optimizes locally within each niche as it simultaneously diversifies. This…

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