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SoftBank Robotics (France)

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Research works
76
▼ 39% vs 2018-21
Citations
2k
26.2 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
8.4%
all institutions 10.0%
Open access
50%
world 40%
International
31%
world 18%
SoftBank Robotics (France)

Not ranked overall: SoftBank Robotics (France) is under the volume floor below which a citation excellence rate is noise. Not ranked is not the same as ranked last.

Which fields of science does SoftBank Robotics (France) work in?

In all years, 72% of research at SoftBank Robotics (France) is in Physical Sciences, 15% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Engineering (41%), Computer Science (27%), Psychology (12%). It does 1.7× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 54 fractional works · 71.7% of its workEngineering: 31 fractional works · 40.7% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 11 fractional works · 14.9% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 7 fractional works · 9.6% of its workMechanical Engineering: 5 fractional works · 6.2% of its workAerospace Engineering: 3 fractional works · 4.0% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 2 fractional works · 2.0% of its workOcean Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workMedia Technology: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workAutomotive Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workBuilding and Construction: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workComputational Mechanics: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workComputer Science: 21 fractional works · 27.2% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 9 fractional works · 12.1% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 8 fractional works · 10.1% of its workComputer Science Applications: 2 fractional works · 2.0% of its workComputational Theory and Mathematics: 1 fractional works · 1.9% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSignal Processing: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 2 fractional works · 2.0% of its workCondensed Matter Physics: 1 fractional works · 1.4% of its workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workGeology: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPaleontology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEnvironmental Science: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMaterials Science: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workChemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEnergy: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workMathematics: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workSocial Sciences: 11 fractional works · 15.0% of its workPsychology: 9 fractional works · 12.1% of its workSocial Psychology: 7 fractional works · 9.7% of its workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 1 fractional works · 1.5% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workSocial Sciences: 2 fractional works · 2.1% of its workSafety Research: 1 fractional works · 1.4% of its workCultural Studies: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workArts and Humanities: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workLanguage and Linguistics: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workDecision Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workLife Sciences: 6 fractional works · 7.9% of its workNeuroscience: 5 fractional works · 6.9% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 5 fractional works · 6.5% of its workCellular and Molecular Neuroscience: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workGenetics: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workCell Biology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPlant Science: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHealth Sciences: 4 fractional works · 5.4% of its workMedicine: 3 fractional works · 3.9% of its workGenetics: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workRehabilitation: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSurgery: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEndocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEpidemiology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workHealth Professions: 1 fractional works · 1.2% of its workOccupational Therapy: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workDentistry: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workOrthodontics: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workALL ITS WORKSoftBank Robotics(France)76fractional works, all years
Life Sciences8%Physical Sciences72%Health Sciences5%Social Sciences15%

Each ring splits the one inside it: the four domains of science, their fields, their subfields. Size is fractional works in all years. Every slice is a page; the interactive view zooms down to single topics and colours each by how much more of it this institution does than the world.

Its 4 domains and 20 fields, with their numbers
    1. Engineering3140.7%
    2. Computer Science2127.2%
    3. Physics and Astronomy22.0%
    4. Earth and Planetary Sciences11.1%
    5. Environmental Science00.2%
    6. Materials Science00.2%
    7. Chemistry00.1%
    8. Energy00.1%
    9. Mathematics00.0%
    1. Psychology912.1%
    2. Social Sciences22.1%
    3. Arts and Humanities00.4%
    4. Decision Sciences00.2%
    5. Economics, Econometrics and Finance00.2%
    1. Neuroscience56.9%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology10.8%
    3. Agricultural and Biological Sciences00.3%
    1. Medicine33.9%
    2. Health Professions11.2%
    3. Dentistry00.3%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

Field profile

Location quotient across every field it publishes in: outside the ring is more than an institution of this size would be expected to publish, inside it is less.

Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 0.13× its world share, 0 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.18× its world share, 0 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Neuroscience: 0.65× its world share, 0 worksNeuroscienceChemistry: 0.40× its world share, 0 worksChemistryComputer Science: 3.15× its world share, 4 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 3.03× its world share, 1 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.41× its world share, 0 worksEnergyEngineering: 3.78× its world share, 10 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.19× its world share, 0 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.23× its world share, 0 worksMaterials SciencePhysics and Astronomy: 2.09× its world share, 1 worksPhysics and AstronomyMedicine: 0.10× its world share, 0 worksMedicineEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.36× its world share, 0 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.43× its world share, 0 worksPsychology1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Engineering, 3.8×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 14 fields, with their numbers
  1. Engineering3.78×10 works
  2. Computer Science3.15×4 works
  3. Earth and Planetary Sciences3.03×1 works
  4. Physics and Astronomy2.09×1 works
  5. Neuroscience0.65×0 works
  6. Psychology0.43×0 works
  7. Energy0.41×0 works
  8. Chemistry0.40×0 works
  9. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.36×0 works
  10. Materials Science0.23×0 works
  11. Environmental Science0.19×0 works
  12. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.18×0 works
  13. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.13×0 works
  14. Medicine0.10×0 works

Who are the top researchers at SoftBank Robotics (France)?

Ranked on the quality score, Alexandre Mazel, Amit Kumar Pandey and Rodolphe Gélin lead among researchers whose main affiliation is SoftBank Robotics (France).

  1. 1 Alexandre Mazel France · #1,193,740 worldwide 539 citations · 21 works
  2. 2 Amit Kumar Pandey France · #1,736,634 worldwide 2.7k citations · 82 works
  3. 3 Rodolphe Gélin France · #2,185,229 worldwide 1.3k citations · 49 works
  4. 4 Hugo Caselles-Dupré France · #2,703,539 worldwide 342 citations · 40 works
  5. 5 Nikolas Hemion France · #3,870,623 worldwide 109 citations · 15 works
  6. 6 Alban Laflaquière France · #4,063,785 worldwide 184 citations · 39 works
  7. 7 Sébastien Courtois France · #4,172,218 worldwide 87 citations · 26 works
All ranked researchers at SoftBank Robotics (France)

What are the most cited papers from SoftBank Robotics (France)?

The most cited paper from SoftBank Robotics (France) is "Geodesic Active Regions and Level Set Methods for Supervised Texture Segmentation" (Nikos Paragios, Rachid Deriche, 2002), with 754 citations. Next come "A Mass-Produced Sociable Humanoid Robot: Pepper: The First Machine of Its Kind" (613) and "Mechatronic design of NAO humanoid" (570).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Geodesic Active Regions and Level Set Methods for Supervised Texture Segmentation Nikos Paragios, Rachid Deriche · International Journal of Computer Vision Feb 2002 754
2 A Mass-Produced Sociable Humanoid Robot: Pepper: The First Machine of Its Kind Amit Kumar Pandey, Rodolphe Gélin · IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine Open access 11 Jul 2018 613
3 Mechatronic design of NAO humanoid David Gouaillier, Vincent Hugel, Pierre Blazevic et al. Conference paper May 2009 570
4 Choregraphe: a graphical tool for humanoid robot programming Etienne Pot, Jérôme Monceaux, Rodolphe Gélin et al. Conference paper Sep 2009 245
5 Conscious Brain-to-Brain Communication in Humans Using Non-Invasive Technologies Carles Grau, Romuald Ginhoux, Alejandro Riera et al. · PLoS ONE Open access 19 Aug 2014 215
All 61 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at SoftBank Robotics (France)?

By fractional works in all years, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Deep Learning, Human-Robot Interaction, Robotics, Anthropomorphism, Socially Assistive Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, Neural Networks and Multi-Agent Systems.

▲ more of its work than of the world's◆ about the world's share▼ less than the world's

Size is fractional works in all years in the topics tagged with each word; colour is the word's share of this institution's work against its share of the world's. The 40 words are chosen for being large and distinctive. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 40 words, with their numbers
  1. Deep Learning12▲ 7.3×29 topics
  2. Human-Robot Interaction10▲ 255×3 topics
  3. Robotics7▲ 40×3 topics
  4. Anthropomorphism6▲ 610×1 topic
  5. Socially Assistive Robotics6▲ 610×1 topic
  6. Artificial Intelligence6▲ 9.1×4 topics
  7. Neural Networks5▲ 6.7×14 topics
  8. Multi-Agent Systems5▲ 32×3 topics
  9. Service Robots5▲ 145×2 topics
  10. Bipedal Locomotion4▲ 288×1 topic
  11. Dynamic Walking4▲ 288×1 topic
  12. Biomedical Applications4▲ 4.8×4 topics
  13. Grasping3▲ 151×1 topic
  14. Robot Learning3▲ 151×1 topic
  15. Reinforcement Learning3▲ 56×2 topics
  16. Robotic Manipulators3▲ 50×3 topics
  17. Autonomous Vehicles3▲ 28×3 topics
  18. Soft Robotics3▲ 81×2 topics
  19. Virtual Reality3▲ 10×3 topics
  20. Distributed Control3▲ 28×2 topics
  21. Bioinspired Robotics3▲ 143×1 topic
  22. Cloud Robotics3▲ 169×1 topic
  23. Continuum Robots3▲ 143×1 topic
  24. Internet of Robotic Things3▲ 169×1 topic
  25. Modular Robots3▲ 103×1 topic
  26. Self-Reconfiguration3▲ 103×1 topic
  27. Social Cognition3▲ 19×4 topics
  28. Actuators3▲ 24×5 topics
  29. Collision Avoidance3▲ 30×2 topics
  30. 3D Mapping2▲ 60×1 topic
  31. Mobile Robots2▲ 39×2 topics
  32. SLAM2▲ 60×1 topic
  33. Autonomous Control2▲ 161×1 topic
  34. Control2▲ 22×4 topics
  35. Path Planning2▲ 33×2 topics
  36. Policy Gradient2▲ 161×1 topic
  37. Biomechanics2▲ 9.1×4 topics
  38. Optimal Motion Planning2▲ 55×1 topic
  39. Rehabilitation2▲ 8.1×2 topics
  40. Sampling-Based Algorithms2▲ 55×1 topic

Which research topics does SoftBank Robotics (France) publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Soft Robotics and Applications, Modular Robots and Swarm Intelligence, Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials and Robot Manipulation and Learning.

Soft Robotics and Applic…2Soft Robotics and Applications: 2 fractional worksModular Robots and Swarm Intelligence: 1 fractional worksAdvanced Sensor and Ener…1Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials: 1 fractional worksRobot Manipulation and L…1Robot Manipulation and Learning: 1 fractional worksRobotic Path Planning Algorithms: 1 fractional worksAdvanced Vision and Imaging: 1 fractional worksMicro and Nano Robotics1Micro and Nano Robotics: 1 fractional worksRobotics and Sensor-Based Localization: 0 fractional worksAdvanced DC-DC Converters: 0 fractional worksProsthetics and Rehabilitation Robotics: 0 fractional works
Biomedical EngineeringMechanical EngineeringControl and Systems EngineeringComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition3 others

Area is fractional works; colour is the subfield each topic belongs to.

  1. 1 Soft Robotics and Applications Biomedical Engineering 2 works
  2. 2 Modular Robots and Swarm Intelligence Mechanical Engineering 1 works
  3. 3 Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials Biomedical Engineering 1 works
  4. 4 Robot Manipulation and Learning Control and Systems Engineering 1 works
  5. 5 Robotic Path Planning Algorithms Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 1 works
  6. 6 Advanced Vision and Imaging Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 1 works
  7. 7 Micro and Nano Robotics Condensed Matter Physics 1 works
  8. 8 Robotics and Sensor-Based Localization Aerospace Engineering 0 works
  9. 9 Advanced DC-DC Converters Electrical and Electronic Engineering 0 works
  10. 10 Prosthetics and Rehabilitation Robotics Biomedical Engineering 0 works

How open and international is its research?

Against the world's own shares: the tick on each track. Both are shares of its output, so they sit on one scale and can be read against each other as well as against the world.

openly available50.2%not open49.8%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors31.2%domestic only68.8%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has SoftBank Robotics (France)'s research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 39% lower than in 2018-2021.

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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is SoftBank Robotics (France) as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.000074% in 2024.

still counting0.00010%0.00020%0.00030%SoftBank Robotics (France)0.000070% in 2025200020102020

Fractional works of SoftBank Robotics (France) over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

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