The Emergence of Ontogenic Scaffolding in a Stochastic Development Environment. - John Rieffel; Jordan B. Pollack (GECCO (1), 2004)

Crossing the fabrication gap: evolving assembly plans to build 3-D objects. - John Rieffel; Jordan B. Pollack (Congress on Evolutionary Computation, 2005)

Evolving Assembly Plans for Fully Automated Design and Assembly. - John Rieffel; Jordan B. Pollack (Evolvable Hardware, 2005)

Automated assembly as situated development: using artificial ontogenies to evolve buildable 3-D objects. - John Rieffel; Jordan B. Pollack (GECCO, 2005)

Evolutionary fabrication: the emergence of novel assembly methods in artificial ontogenies. - John Rieffel; Jordan B. Pollack (GECCO Workshops, 2005)

On the Relationship between Environmental Noise and Modular Hierarchies. - John Rieffel (AAAI Fall Symposium: Developmental Systems, 2006)

Growing form-filling tensegrity structures using map L-systems. - John Rieffel; Hod Lipson; Francisco J. Valero Cuevas (GECCO, 2007)

Mechanism as Mind - What Tensegrities and Caterpillars Can Teach Us about Soft Robotics. - John Rieffel; Barry Trimmer; Hod Lipson (ALIFE, 2008)

Evolving soft robotic locomotion in PhysX. - John Rieffel; Frank Saunders; Shilpa Nadimpalli; Harvey Zhou; Soha Hassoun; Jason H. Rife; Barry Trimmer (GECCO (Companion), 2009)

A method of accelerating convergence for Genetic Algorithms evolving morphological and control parameters for a biomimetic robot. - Frank Saunders; John Rieffel; Jason H. Rife (ICARA, 2009)

A Face-Encoding Grammar for the Generation of Tetrahedral-Mesh Soft Bodies. - John Rieffel; Schuyler Smith (ALIFE, 2010)

Body/Brain Co-Evolution in Soft Robots. - John Rieffel; Barry Trimmer (ALIFE, 2010)

EvoFab: A Fully Embodied Evolutionary Fabricator. - John Rieffel; Dave Sayles (ICES, 2010)

Scalable co-evolution of soft robot properties and gaits. - Davis Knox; John Rieffel (ECAL, 2011)

Trent McConaghy, P. Palmers, G. Peng, Michiel Steyaert, Georges Gielen: Variation-aware analog structural synthesis: a computational intelligence approach - Springer, 2009, ISBN 978-90-481-2905-8. - John Rieffel (Genet. Program. Evolvable Mach., 2011)

Automatically Designing and Printing 3-D Objects with EvoFab 0.2. - Tim Kühn; John Rieffel (ALIFE, 2012)

Growing and evolving soft robots with a face-encoding tetrahedral grammar. - John Rieffel; Schuyler Smith (GECCO (Companion), 2012)

Exploiting Dynamical Complexity in a Physical Tensegrity Robot to Achieve Locomotion. - Mark Khazanov; Ben Humphreys; William D. Keat; John Rieffel (ECAL, 2013)

Heterochronic scaling of developmental durations in evolved soft robots. - John Rieffel (GECCO, 2013)

Evolution of Locomotion on a Physical Tensegrity Robot. - Mark Khazanov; Julian Jocque; John Rieffel (ALIFE, 2014)

Developing morphological computation in tensegrity robots for controllable actuation. - Mark Khazanov; Julian Jocque; John Rieffel (GECCO (Companion), 2014)

Growing and Evolving Soft Robots. - John Rieffel; Davis Knox; Schuyler Smith; Barry Trimmer (Artif. Life, 2014)

Growing and Evolving Vibrationally Actuated Soft Robots. - Benjamin Berger; Alvin Andino; Andrew Danise; John Rieffel (GECCO (Companion), 2015)

Editorial Introduction to the Artificial Life 14 Conference Special Issue. - Hiroki Sayama; John Rieffel; Sebastian Risi; René Doursat; Hod Lipson (Artif. Life, 2016)

A baseline-realistic objective open-ended kinematics simulator for evolutionary robotics. - Riley Konsella; Frank Chiarulli; John Peterson; John Rieffel (GECCO (Companion), 2017)

Introduction to the Evolution of Physical Systems Special Issue. - John Rieffel; Jean-Baptiste Mouret; Nicolas Bredèche; Evert Haasdijk (Artif. Life, 2017)

Soft tensegrity robots. - John Rieffel; Jean-Baptiste Mouret (CoRR, 2017)

Low-Cost Wireless Modular Soft Tensegrity Robots. - Jonathan Kimber; Zongliang Ji; Aikaterini Petridou; Thomas Sipple; Kentaro Barhydt; James Boggs; Luke Dosiek; John Rieffel (RoboSoft, 2019)

Behavioral Repertoires for Soft Tensegrity Robots. - Kyle Doney; Aikaterini Petridou; Jacob Karaul; Ali Khan; Geoffrey Liu; John Rieffel (SSCI, 2020)

Editorial: Recent Trends in Morphological Computation. - Keyan Ghazi-Zahedi; John Rieffel; Syn Schmitt; Helmut Hauser (Frontiers Robotics AI, 2021)

Robustness for Free: Quality-Diversity Driven Discovery of Agile Soft Robotic Gaits. - John Daly; Daniel Casper; Muhammad Farooq; Andrew James; Ali Khan; Phoenix Mulgrew; Daniel Tyebkhan; Bao Vo; John Rieffel (CoRR, 2023)

Robustness in Diversity: Quality-Diversity Driven Discovery of Agile Soft Robotic Gaits. - John Daly; Daniel Casper; Muhammad Farooq; Andrew James; Ali Khan; Phoenix Mulgrew; Daniel Tyebkhan; Bao Vo; John Rieffel (RoboSoft, 2024)

Investigation of stiffness and mechanical property change capabilities of compliant 2D tensegrity grids for the application in soft robotics. - Lukas Lehmann; David Herrmann; Leon Schaeffer; Marcelo Hohma; John Rieffel; Valter Böhm (RoboSoft, 2025)