Edoardo Milana

627 total citations · 1 hit paper
23 papers, 470 citations indexed

About

Edoardo Milana is a scholar working on Mechanical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering and Condensed Matter Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Edoardo Milana has authored 23 papers receiving a total of 470 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 17 papers in Mechanical Engineering, 15 papers in Biomedical Engineering and 11 papers in Condensed Matter Physics. Recurrent topics in Edoardo Milana's work include Modular Robots and Swarm Intelligence (12 papers), Soft Robotics and Applications (11 papers) and Micro and Nano Robotics (11 papers). Edoardo Milana is often cited by papers focused on Modular Robots and Swarm Intelligence (12 papers), Soft Robotics and Applications (11 papers) and Micro and Nano Robotics (11 papers). Edoardo Milana collaborates with scholars based in Belgium, United Kingdom and Germany. Edoardo Milana's co-authors include Benjamin Gorissen, Dominiek Reynaerts, Michaël De Volder, Christoph Keplinger, Cameron A. Aubin, Robert F. Shepherd, Fumiya Iida, Geoffrey A. Slipher, Philip R. Buskohl and Nathan Lazarus and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Advanced Materials and Advanced Functional Materials.

In The Last Decade

Edoardo Milana

19 papers receiving 462 citations

Hit Papers

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Towards enduring autonomous robots via embodied energy

2022 158 citations Cameron A. Aubin, Benjamin Gorissen et al. Nature profile →

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Yingdan Wu Germany

Reza Ahmed United States

Zihao Luo China

Mohammad Salehizadeh Canada

Bo Hao China

Brian McCoy United States

S. M. Wu United States

Amir Mohammadi Nasab United States

Nikolaos Vasios United States

Hiroki Shigemune Japan

Yingdan Wu Germany

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Countries citing papers authored by Edoardo Milana

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Fields of papers citing papers by Edoardo Milana

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Edoardo Milana

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Edoardo Milana. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Edoardo Milana based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Edoardo Milana. Edoardo Milana is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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Song, Qingchuan, et al.. (2026). Monolithic 3D Printing of Origami‐Inspired Soft Robotics from Sustainable Bio‐Based Resin. Advanced Science. 13(15). e20529–e20529.

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Milana, Edoardo, et al.. (2025). Symmetry Breaking Metamaterial Sleeve Actuators. Advanced Intelligent Systems. 7(11).

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Migliorini, Lorenzo, et al.. (2025). Electropneumatic Oscillators Using Nonlinear Inflatables. Advanced Intelligent Systems. 7(6).

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Milana, Edoardo, Cosimo Della Santina, Benjamin Gorissen, & Philipp Rothemund. (2025). Physical control: A new avenue to achieve intelligence in soft robotics. Science Robotics. 10(102). eadw7660–eadw7660. 1 indexed citations

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Milana, Edoardo, et al.. (2023). Nonlinear Inflatable Actuators for Distributed Control in Soft Robots. Advanced Materials. 35(35). e2301487–e2301487. 23 indexed citations

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Milana, Edoardo, et al.. (2022). Out-of-Plane Soft Lithography for Soft Pneumatic Microactuator Arrays. Soft Robotics. 10(1). 197–204. 10 indexed citations

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Milana, Edoardo, et al.. (2022). Morphological Control of Cilia-Inspired Asymmetric Movements Using Nonlinear Soft Inflatable Actuators. Frontiers in Robotics and AI. 8. 788067–788067. 11 indexed citations

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Aubin, Cameron A., Benjamin Gorissen, Edoardo Milana, et al.. (2022). Towards enduring autonomous robots via embodied energy. Nature. 602(7897). 393–402. 158 indexed citations breakdown →

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Milana, Edoardo. (2022). Soft robotics for infrastructure protection. Frontiers in Robotics and AI. 9. 1026891–1026891. 14 indexed citations

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Milana, Edoardo, et al.. (2022). Autonomous Reading of Gauges in Unstructured Environments. Sensors. 22(17). 6681–6681. 1 indexed citations

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Migliorini, Lorenzo, Edoardo Milana, Lorenzo Vannozzi, et al.. (2021). Monolithic Three-Dimensional Functionally Graded Hydrogels for Bioinspired Soft Robots Fabrication. Soft Robotics. 9(2). 224–232. 17 indexed citations

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Milana, Edoardo, et al.. (2021). Model-Based Control Can Improve the Performance of Artificial Cilia. elib (German Aerospace Center). 527–530. 6 indexed citations

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Milana, Edoardo, Rongjing Zhang, Maria Rosaria Vetrano, et al.. (2020). Metachronal patterns in artificial cilia for low Reynolds number fluid propulsion. Science Advances. 6(49). 65 indexed citations

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Milana, Edoardo, et al.. (2020). EELWORM: a bioinspired multimodal amphibious soft robot. Lirias (KU Leuven). 766–771. 26 indexed citations

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Milana, Edoardo, Mattia Bellotti, Benjamin Gorissen, et al.. (2020). Shaping Soft Robotic Microactuators by Wire Electrical Discharge Grinding. Micromachines. 11(7). 661–661. 4 indexed citations

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Milana, Edoardo, et al.. (2019). Biomimetics: Artificial Soft Cilia with Asymmetric Beating Patterns for Biomimetic Low‐Reynolds‐Number Fluid Propulsion (Adv. Funct. Mater. 22/2019). Advanced Functional Materials. 29(22). 1 indexed citations

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Milana, Edoardo, et al.. (2019). Artificial Soft Cilia with Asymmetric Beating Patterns for Biomimetic Low‐Reynolds‐Number Fluid Propulsion. Advanced Functional Materials. 29(22). 43 indexed citations

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Milana, Edoardo, et al.. (2018). Design of a bi-segmented soft actuator with hardware encoded quasi-static inflation sequence. Lirias (KU Leuven). 108–113. 4 indexed citations

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Gorissen, Benjamin, et al.. (2018). Lithographic production of vertically aligned CNT strain sensors for integration in soft robotic microactuators. Lirias (KU Leuven). 7. 400–405. 4 indexed citations

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Gorissen, Benjamin, et al.. (2018). Hardware Sequencing of Inflatable Nonlinear Actuators for Autonomous Soft Robots. Advanced Materials. 31(3). e1804598–e1804598. 60 indexed citations

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