Technology · Robotics
Who’s working on robotics?
Robots are leaving fenced cells for warehouses, hospitals and homes, which puts the hard problems in grasping, perception, learning and working safely next to people. This page shows how much of that work the Helikon Research Graph holds and gives you a problem statement to run in Partner Search.
What the Helikon Research Graph holds on robotics
23,000+
researchers
108,000+
publications
8,300+
U.S. patents
Counts from the Helikon Research Graph on 9 October 2026; rounded down. Each figure is counted on its own, so they are not added together.
How these were counted
- Publications: papers whose title, author names or research topics match the keyword set below, the same text the Literature search reads.
- U.S. patents: granted U.S. patents whose text matches the keyword set and that carry at least one of these CPC subclasses: B25J, G05B, G05D, B62D, A61B, A61H, Y10S. That is the Patents search with the CPC subclass field set.
- Researchers: people in the graph who authored a matching publication or are named inventors on a matching patent.
- Keyword set:
"robotic manipulation" OR "robot manipulation" OR "robotic grasping" OR "robot grasping" OR "dexterous manipulation" OR "robot learning" OR "humanoid robot" OR "legged robot" OR "quadruped robot" OR "mobile robot" OR "soft robot" OR "soft robotics" OR "robot control" OR "robotic arm" OR "robot arm" OR "robotic hand" OR "multi-robot" OR "swarm robotics" OR "human-robot interaction" OR "human-robot collaboration" OR "collaborative robot" OR "robot navigation" OR "industrial robot" OR "surgical robot" OR "wearable robot" OR "robotic exoskeleton" OR "teleoperation" OR "end effector"
Try it on a real problem
Partner Search ranks researchers against a problem statement by what their publications, patents and profiles say. This one is ready to run; edit it to fit your project.
We pick mixed parts from bins and our grasp success falls below 80% on shiny and transparent items. Looking for a group working on tactile sensing or learned grasp policies that transfer from simulation to a real work cell.Run this in Partner Search
Who’s working on this
Mechanical engineering, electrical engineering and computer science groups at universities, national laboratories, and company teams in industrial automation, logistics, surgical systems and consumer robots.
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