Robert Baines

999 total citations · 1 hit paper
19 papers, 614 citations indexed

About

Robert Baines is a scholar working on Biomedical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Condensed Matter Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Robert Baines has authored 19 papers receiving a total of 614 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 17 papers in Biomedical Engineering, 15 papers in Mechanical Engineering and 4 papers in Condensed Matter Physics. Recurrent topics in Robert Baines's work include Modular Robots and Swarm Intelligence (13 papers), Soft Robotics and Applications (12 papers) and Advanced Materials and Mechanics (8 papers). Robert Baines is often cited by papers focused on Modular Robots and Swarm Intelligence (13 papers), Soft Robotics and Applications (12 papers) and Advanced Materials and Mechanics (8 papers). Robert Baines collaborates with scholars based in United States, Switzerland and South Korea. Robert Baines's co-authors include Rebecca Kramer‐Bottiglio, Joran Booth, Frank E. Fish, Sree Kalyan Patiballa, Dylan Shah, Luis Ramírez, Katia Bertoldi, Sang Yup Kim, Nikolaos Vasios and Kostas E. Bekris and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Advanced Materials and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Robert Baines

16 papers receiving 609 citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Multi-environment robotic transitions through adaptive morphogenesis

2022 185 citations Robert Baines, Sree Kalyan Patiballa et al. Nature profile →

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Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Robert Baines United States	10	416	377	130	110	62	19	614
Jiefeng Sun United States	12	588 1.4×	491 1.3×	192 1.5×	74 0.7×	143 2.3×	23	779
Paul E. Glick United States	8	441 1.1×	265 0.7×	83 0.6×	59 0.5×	164 2.6×	13	560
Vishesh Vikas United States	10	371 0.9×	274 0.7×	199 1.5×	41 0.4×	78 1.3×	32	485
Andrew P. Sabelhaus United States	12	252 0.6×	454 1.2×	51 0.4×	341 3.1×	76 1.2×	26	685
Sree Kalyan Patiballa United States	7	244 0.6×	218 0.6×	83 0.6×	35 0.3×	52 0.8×	17	354
Laura Paez Switzerland	9	352 0.8×	219 0.6×	75 0.6×	23 0.2×	92 1.5×	17	431
Seung-Won Kim South Korea	11	432 1.0×	343 0.9×	96 0.7×	137 1.2×	103 1.7×	28	715
Woo-Young Choi South Korea	9	300 0.7×	269 0.7×	102 0.8×	54 0.5×	71 1.1×	13	444
Nicholas D. Naclerio United States	11	305 0.7×	278 0.7×	101 0.8×	96 0.9×	105 1.7×	18	473
Emanuela Del Dottore Italy	13	417 1.0×	387 1.0×	160 1.2×	55 0.5×	137 2.2×	36	700

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19 of 19 papers shown

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Baines, Robert, et al.. (2025). Decreasing the Cost of Morphing in Adaptive Morphogenetic Robots. Advanced Intelligent Systems. 7(9).

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Baines, Robert, et al.. (2025). Robust Ladder Climbing with a Quadrupedal Robot. 7239–7244.

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Friedrich, Christian, et al.. (2025). RoboWrangler: Toward Rope-based Grasping for Mobile Manipulation. 1–6.

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Baines, Robert, Frank E. Fish, Josh Bongard, & Rebecca Kramer‐Bottiglio. (2024). Robots that evolve on demand. Nature Reviews Materials. 9(11). 822–835. 10 indexed citations

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Sun, Jiefeng, et al.. (2024). Performance Enhancement of a Morphing Limb for an Amphibious Robotic Turtle. 374–379. 1 indexed citations

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Baines, Robert, Dylan Shah, Jeremy A. Marvel, Jennifer C. Case, & Andrew Spielberg. (2024). The need for reproducible research in soft robotics. Nature Machine Intelligence. 6(7). 740–741. 4 indexed citations

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Baines, Robert, Sree Kalyan Patiballa, Benjamin Gorissen, Katia Bertoldi, & Rebecca Kramer‐Bottiglio. (2023). Programming 3D Curves with Discretely Constrained Cylindrical Inflatables. Advanced Materials. 35(26). e2300535–e2300535. 19 indexed citations

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Baines, Robert, et al.. (2023). Multi-modal deformation and temperature sensing for context-sensitive machines. Nature Communications. 14(1). 7499–7499. 25 indexed citations

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Kim, Seung‐Kyu, Dylan Shah, Robert Baines, et al.. (2023). Spikebot: A Multigait Tensegrity Robot with Linearly Extending Struts. Soft Robotics. 11(2). 207–217. 9 indexed citations

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Baines, Robert, et al.. (2023). Kirigami layer jamming. Extreme Mechanics Letters. 64. 102084–102084. 9 indexed citations

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Baines, Robert, Sree Kalyan Patiballa, Joran Booth, et al.. (2022). Multi-environment robotic transitions through adaptive morphogenesis. Nature. 610(7931). 283–289. 185 indexed citations breakdown →

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Shah, Dylan, Joran Booth, Robert Baines, et al.. (2021). Tensegrity Robotics. Soft Robotics. 9(4). 639–656. 82 indexed citations

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Baines, Robert, Sree Kalyan Patiballa, & Rebecca Kramer‐Bottiglio. (2021). Rapidly Reconfigurable Inextensible Inflatables. 29–34. 3 indexed citations

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Baines, Robert, et al.. (2021). Reprogrammable soft actuation and shape-shifting via tensile jamming. Science Advances. 7(40). eabh2073–eabh2073. 78 indexed citations

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Baines, Robert, Simon E. Freeman, Frank E. Fish, & Rebecca Kramer‐Bottiglio. (2020). Variable stiffness morphing limb for amphibious legged robots inspired by chelonian environmental adaptations. Bioinspiration & Biomimetics. 15(2). 25002–25002. 36 indexed citations

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Baines, Robert, Joran Booth, & Rebecca Kramer‐Bottiglio. (2020). Rolling Soft Membrane-Driven Tensegrity Robots. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 5(4). 6567–6574. 35 indexed citations

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Kim, Sang Yup, Robert Baines, Joran Booth, et al.. (2019). Reconfigurable soft body trajectories using unidirectionally stretchable composite laminae. Nature Communications. 10(1). 3464–3464. 91 indexed citations

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Morgan, Andrew S., et al.. (2019). Unstructured Terrain Navigation and Topographic Mapping with a Low-cost Mobile Cuboid Robot. 3597–3602. 1 indexed citations

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Baines, Robert, Joran Booth, Frank E. Fish, & Rebecca Kramer‐Bottiglio. (2019). Toward a bio-inspired variable-stiffness morphing limb for amphibious robot locomotion. 704–710. 26 indexed citations

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