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Robotics and Automated Systems

Robotics and Automated Systems is a research topic within Control and Systems Engineering. Science Explorer counts 24k research works in it since 1950. 10.0% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers encompasses a wide range of research on cloud robotics, automation, and related technologies. It covers topics such as cloud robotics architecture, challenges, and applications, internet of robotic things, cognitive infocommunications, service robots in cloud computing, virtual reality for robotics, and the integration of artificial intelligence in robotic systems. The research also explores the use of cloud robotics in smart city applications and emphasizes human-robot interaction.

  • Cloud Robotics
  • Internet of Robotic Things
  • Cognitive Infocommunications
  • Service Robots
  • Robot Middleware
  • Virtual Reality
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Networked Robotics
  • Smart City Applications
  • Human-Robot Interaction
Research works
24k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
2.4k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+65%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
33% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Robotics and Automated Systems

Which countries lead Robotics and Automated Systems research?

By volume, China and India publish the most (1.5k and 706 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 1.5k works
  2. 2 India 706 works
  3. 3 United States 691 works
  4. 4 Japan 664 works
  5. 5 Germany 249 works
  6. 6 South Korea 182 works
  7. 7 Italy 176 works
  8. 8 United Kingdom 149 works
  9. 9 Indonesia 110 works
  10. 10 Hungary 104 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

China: 33.1%India: 15.6%United States: 15.2%Japan: 14.7%6 others listed: 21.4%33%largest
China1,502 · 33.1%India706 · 15.6%United States691 · 15.2%Japan664 · 14.7%6 others listed970 · 21.4%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Robotics and Automated Systems research?

By volume in 2022-now, Chinese Academy of Sciences publishes the most Robotics and Automated Systems research, followed by The University of Tokyo and Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 46 works
  2. 2 The University of TokyoJapan 37 works
  3. 3 Beijing University of Posts and TelecommunicationsChina 29 works
  4. 4 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 27 works
  5. 5 Zhejiang UniversityChina 26 works
  6. 6 SRM Institute of Science and TechnologyIndia 26 works
  7. 7 Beijing Institute of TechnologyChina 26 works
  8. 8 Vellore Institute of Technology UniversityIndia 25 works
  9. 9 Tsinghua UniversityChina 25 works
  10. 10 Beihang UniversityChina 24 works

Who are the leading researchers in Robotics and Automated Systems?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Robotics and Automated Systems include Li Fei-Fei, Trevor J. Darrell and Jürgen Schmidhuber.

  1. 1 Li Fei-Fei United States 225k citations
  2. 2 Trevor J. Darrell United States 206k citations
  3. 3 Jürgen Schmidhuber Switzerland 188k citations
  4. 4 Luc Van Gool Switzerland 177k citations
  5. 5 H. Vincent Poor United States 165k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in Robotics and Automated Systems?

The most cited paper in Robotics and Automated Systems is "ROS: an open-source Robot Operating System" (Morgan Quigley, 2009), with 7,166 citations. Next come "The Narrative Construction of Reality" (5,624) and "Design and use paradigms for gazebo, an open-source multi-robot simulator" (3,557).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 ROS: an open-source Robot Operating System Morgan Quigley · International Conference on Robotics and Automation Conference paper 2009 7,166
2 The Narrative Construction of Reality Jerome S. Bruner · Critical Inquiry Oct 1991 5,624
3 Design and use paradigms for gazebo, an open-source multi-robot simulator Nathan Koenig, A. Howard Conference paper Apr 2005 3,557
4 The Uncanny Valley [From the Field] Masahiro Mori, Karl Fredric MacDorman, Norri Kageki · IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine Jun 2012 3,455
5 A survey of socially interactive robots Terrence Fong, Illah Nourbakhsh, Kerstin Dautenhahn · Robotics and Autonomous Systems Open access 28 Feb 2003 3,159
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Robotics and Automated Systems research done?

The largest centres of Robotics and Automated Systems research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Tokyo (Japan), Chennai (India) and Shanghai (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Kitakyushu.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 289 works
  2. 2 TokyoJapan 233 works
  3. 3 ChennaiIndia 97 works
  4. 4 ShanghaiChina 90 works
  5. 5 SeoulSouth Korea 80 works
  6. 6 NanjingChina 74 works
  7. 7 GuangzhouChina 68 works
  8. 8 Xi'anChina 67 works
  9. 9 WuhanChina 66 works
  10. 10 HangzhouChina 59 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. KitakyushuJP · 25.7 works16×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Robotics and Automated Systems than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Robotics and Automated Systems?

Among universities, judged by research, Nanyang Technological University, University of Hong Kong and Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

0%20%40%mean 22.06%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →University of Hong K…Nanyang Technologica…Carnegie Mellon Univ…Beijing University o…
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One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

Excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
40%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
10%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
30%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
10%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
10%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1Nanyang Technological UniversitySingapore 79.030.0%3.8×17 +204.7%
2University of Hong KongChina 67.334.4%2.0×10 +674.2%
3Beijing University of Posts and TelecommunicationsChina 67.018.0%8.1×29 +401.8%
4Carnegie Mellon UniversityUnited States 66.722.0%5.9×14 +43.2%
5Hong Kong Polytechnic UniversityChina 65.723.6%2.8×13 +582.6%
6KTH Royal Institute of TechnologySweden 63.622.2%4.2×9 +171.1%
7Tsinghua UniversityChina 61.420.7%1.9×25 +158.5%
8Beihang UniversityChina 60.720.1%3.9×24 +161.1%
9Beijing Institute of TechnologyChina 59.015.8%3.9×26 +210.8%
10Technical University of MunichGermany 57.113.8%3.3×16 +226.3%

Universities only. The score blends excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Robotics and Automated Systems, country by country

Is Robotics and Automated Systems research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 65% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2024. The fastest-growing topics are Robotics and Automated Systems.

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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 Robotics and Automated Systems as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.039% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Robotics and Automated Systems over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year.

still counting5%10%15%Robotics and Automated Systems10.0% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.

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