Robotics – ETO Research Almanac

ETO Research Almanac

Between 2017 and 2022, researchers published roughly

140,000

English-language articles on robotics

The global robotics literature grew

46%

between 2017 and 2022

Articles on robotics made up

16%

of all articles on artificial intelligence

Authors from private companies contributed to

of robotics articles

What counts as "robotics" research?•How precise are these numbers?•What are the other caveats?

Data last updated November 20, 2023

Vital signs

142,403

robotics articles were released between 2017 and 2022 (estd.)

46%

growth in research between 2017 and 2022

16%

of all artificial intelligence articles focused on robotics

Citation impact

citations for the average robotics article

citations for the average artificial intelligence article

Countries

18%

of robotics articles have American authors

29%

have Chinese authors

20%

have European authors

Country	Articles (2017-2022)	Growth (2017-2022)	Global share	Citations per article
China	40,666	113%	29%	8
United States	25,210	7%	18%	17.6
Japan	8,618	16%	6%	7.5

Top-cited articles

Design and Development of Cost-Effective Child Surveillance System using Computer Vision Technology
2022: 2022 International Conference on Recent Trends in Microelectronics, Automation, Computing and Communications Systems (ICMACC). 3,816 citations
CARLA: An Open Urban Driving Simulator
2017: arXiv: Learning. 3,248 citations
nuScenes: A multimodal dataset for autonomous driving
2019: arXiv: Learning. 3,083 citations
VINS-Mono: A Robust and Versatile Monocular Visual-Inertial State Estimator
2017: IEEE Transactions on robotics. 2,521 citations
Deep Parametric Continuous Convolutional Neural Networks
2018: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. 2,433 citations
Social GAN: Socially Acceptable Trajectories with Generative Adversarial Networks
2018: arXiv: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. 1,554 citations
PoseCNN: A Convolutional Neural Network for 6D Object Pose Estimation in Cluttered Scenes
2017: arXiv: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. 1,548 citations
Learning Dexterous In-Hand Manipulation
2018: arXiv: Learning. 1,479 citations
Soft Actor-Critic Algorithms and Applications
2018: arXiv: Learning. 1,452 citations
ORB-SLAM3: An Accurate Open-Source Library for Visual, Visual–Inertial, and Multimap SLAM
2020: IEEE Transactions on robotics. 1,425 citations

Research organizations

Top producers of robotics research (by article count)

#1 Chinese Academy of Sciences (China)
#2 Harbin Institute of Technology (China)
#3 Beihang University (China)

Organization	Articles (2017-2022)	Citations per article	Country
Chinese Academy of Sciences	2,021	13.2	China
Harbin Institute of Technology	1,480	9.9	China
Beihang University	1,106	12.7	China

Patents and industry

of robotics articles are cited in patents

of artificial intelligence articles are cited in patents

of robotics articles had authors from private companies (vs 6% of artificial intelligence articles in general)