Tess Hellebrekers

1.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
18 papers, 1.0k citations indexed

About

Tess Hellebrekers is a scholar working on Biomedical Engineering, Cognitive Neuroscience and Human-Computer Interaction. According to data from OpenAlex, Tess Hellebrekers has authored 18 papers receiving a total of 1.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 15 papers in Biomedical Engineering, 7 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience and 4 papers in Human-Computer Interaction. Recurrent topics in Tess Hellebrekers's work include Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials (13 papers), Soft Robotics and Applications (8 papers) and Tactile and Sensory Interactions (7 papers). Tess Hellebrekers is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials (13 papers), Soft Robotics and Applications (8 papers) and Tactile and Sensory Interactions (7 papers). Tess Hellebrekers collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and South Korea. Tess Hellebrekers's co-authors include Carmel Majidi, Navid Kazem, Oliver Kroemer, Yong‐Lae Park, Philip R. LeDuc, Cheemeng Tan, Jessica Yin, Michael J. Ford, Kadri Bugra Ozutemiz and Tamim Asfour and has published in prestigious journals such as Advanced Materials, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Additive manufacturing.

In The Last Decade

Tess Hellebrekers

18 papers receiving 1.0k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

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.

Soft Multifunctional Composites and Emulsions with Liquid Metals

2017 342 citations Navid Kazem, Tess Hellebrekers et al. Advanced Materials profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Tess Hellebrekers United States	12	863	286	234	181	121	18	1.0k
Michelle C. Yuen United States	21	1.2k 1.3×	527 1.8×	211 0.9×	236 1.3×	155 1.3×	43	1.4k
Rishabh Mishra India	13	864 1.0×	351 1.2×	145 0.6×	276 1.5×	79 0.7×	35	1.1k
Hongbo Wang China	15	1.2k 1.4×	433 1.5×	409 1.7×	247 1.4×	167 1.4×	49	1.4k
Vanessa Sanchez United States	11	938 1.1×	420 1.5×	233 1.0×	119 0.7×	70 0.6×	19	1.1k
Shantonu Biswas Germany	14	515 0.6×	271 0.9×	196 0.8×	199 1.1×	68 0.6×	23	739
Hritwick Banerjee Singapore	18	1.2k 1.4×	469 1.6×	227 1.0×	187 1.0×	106 0.9×	38	1.5k
Hedan Bai United States	9	888 1.0×	556 1.9×	232 1.0×	202 1.1×	40 0.3×	18	1.2k
Haipeng Xu China	15	676 0.8×	195 0.7×	237 1.0×	98 0.5×	126 1.0×	24	865
Steven Rich United States	9	995 1.2×	541 1.9×	119 0.5×	205 1.1×	75 0.6×	14	1.2k
Yegor Piskarev Switzerland	10	684 0.8×	192 0.7×	187 0.8×	137 0.8×	58 0.5×	13	777

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Tess Hellebrekers

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18 of 18 papers shown

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Hellebrekers, Tess, et al.. (2025). AnySkin: Plug-and-Play Skin Sensing for Robotic Touch. 16563–16570. 1 indexed citations

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Yin, Jessica, Haozhi Qi, Jitendra Malik, et al.. (2025). Learning In-Hand Translation Using Tactile Skin with Shear and Normal Force Sensing. 5850–5856. 1 indexed citations

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Hellebrekers, Tess, et al.. (2024). Hearing Touch: Audio-Visual Pretraining for Contact-Rich Manipulation. 6912–6919. 8 indexed citations

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Rentschler, Mark E., et al.. (2023). DragonClaw: A low-cost pneumatic gripper with integrated magnetic sensing. 1–8. 1 indexed citations

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Majidi, Carmel, et al.. (2023). All the Feels: A Dexterous Hand With Large-Area Tactile Sensing. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 8(12). 8311–8318. 11 indexed citations

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Hellebrekers, Tess, et al.. (2022). Tracking of Scalpel Motions With an Inertial Measurement Unit System. IEEE Sensors Journal. 22(5). 4651–4660. 6 indexed citations

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Hellebrekers, Tess, et al.. (2020). Machine Learning for Soft Robotic Sensing and Control. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2(6). 162 indexed citations

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Hellebrekers, Tess, et al.. (2020). Soft Magnetic Tactile Skin for Continuous Force and Location Estimation Using Neural Networks. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 5(3). 3892–3898. 66 indexed citations

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Yin, Jessica, Tess Hellebrekers, & Carmel Majidi. (2020). Closing the Loop with Liquid-Metal Sensing Skin for Autonomous Soft Robot Gripping. 661–667. 17 indexed citations

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Hellebrekers, Tess, Kevin Zhang, Manuela Veloso, Oliver Kroemer, & Carmel Majidi. (2020). Localization and Force-Feedback with Soft Magnetic Stickers for Precise Robot Manipulation. 8867–8874. 6 indexed citations

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Phillips, Brennan, et al.. (2019). Additive manufacturing aboard a moving vessel at sea using passively stabilized stereolithography (SLA) 3D printing. Additive manufacturing. 31. 100969–100969. 32 indexed citations

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Hellebrekers, Tess, et al.. (2019). A biosensing soft robot: Autonomous parsing of chemical signals through integrated organic and inorganic interfaces. Science Robotics. 4(31). 107 indexed citations

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Hellebrekers, Tess, Oliver Kroemer, & Carmel Majidi. (2019). Soft Magnetic Skin for Continuous Deformation Sensing. Advanced Intelligent Systems. 1(4). 106 indexed citations

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Hellebrekers, Tess, et al.. (2019). Predicting Grasp Success with a Soft Sensing Skin and Shape-Memory Actuated Gripper. 7120–7127. 27 indexed citations

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Hellebrekers, Tess, et al.. (2018). A Soft Optical Waveguide Coupled With Fiber Optics for Dynamic Pressure and Strain Sensing. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 3(4). 3821–3827. 46 indexed citations

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Hellebrekers, Tess, Kadri Bugra Ozutemiz, Jessica Yin, & Carmel Majidi. (2018). Liquid Metal-Microelectronics Integration for a Sensorized Soft Robot Skin. 5924–5929. 26 indexed citations

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Kazem, Navid, Tess Hellebrekers, & Carmel Majidi. (2017). Soft Multifunctional Composites and Emulsions with Liquid Metals. Advanced Materials. 29(27). 342 indexed citations breakdown →

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Hellebrekers, Tess, et al.. (2015). Highly stretchable optical sensors for pressure, strain, and curvature measurement. 5898–5903. 76 indexed citations

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