Frog-inspired hind limb for jumping robots. - Zhijian Ren; Hesheng Wang 001; Weidong Chen 001 (ROBIO, 2017)

Soft Thermal Actuators with Embedded Liquid Metal Microdroplets for Improved Heat Management. - Xiaonan Huang; Zhijian Ren; Carmel Majidi (RoboSoft, 2020)

Numerical Simulation of an Untethered Omni-Directional Star-Shaped Swimming Robot. - Xiaonan Huang; Weicheng Huang; Zachary Patterson; Zhijian Ren; Mohammad Khalid Jawed; Carmel Majidi (ICRA, 2021)

Shape Memory Alloy (SMA) Actuator With Embedded Liquid Metal Curvature Sensor for Closed-Loop Control. - Zhijian Ren; Masoud Zarepoor; Xiaonan Huang; Andrew P. Sabelhaus; Carmel Majidi (Frontiers Robotics AI, 2021)

Collision Resilient Insect-Scale Soft-Actuated Aerial Robots With High Agility. - YuFeng Chen 003; Siyi Xu; Zhijian Ren; Pakpong Chirarattananon (IEEE Trans. Robotics, 2021)

Design and Closed-Loop Motion Planning of an Untethered Swimming Soft Robot Using 2D Discrete Elastic Rods Simulations. - Xiaonan Huang; Zach J. Patterson; Andrew P. Sabelhaus; Weicheng Huang; Kiyn Chin; Zhijian Ren; Mohammad Khalid Jawed; Carmel Majidi (Adv. Intell. Syst., 2022)

Heading Control of a Long-Endurance Insect-Scale Aerial Robot Powered by Soft Artificial Muscles. - Yi-Hsuan Hsiao; Suhan Kim; Zhijian Ren; Yufeng Chen 003 (ICRA, 2023)

A lightweight high-voltage boost circuit for soft-actuated micro-aerial-robots. - Zhijian Ren; Jiahui Yang; Suhan Kim; Yi-Hsuan Hsiao; Jeffrey Lang; Yufeng Chen 003 (ICRA, 2023)

Laser-assisted failure recovery for dielectric elastomer actuators in aerial robots. - Suhan Kim; Yi Hsuan Hsiao; Younghoon Lee; Weikun Zhu; Zhijian Ren; Farnaz Niroui; Yufeng Chen 003 (Sci. Robotics, 2023)

Modular and Scalable Fabrication of Insect-Scale Aerial Robots toward Demonstrating Swarm Flights. - Yi-Hsuan Hsiao; Suhan Kim; Steven Ceron; Zhijian Ren; Yufeng Chen 003 (Adv. Intell. Syst., 2024)

Acrobatics at the insect scale: A durable, precise, and agile micro-aerial robot. - Suhan Kim; Yi-Hsuan Hsiao; Zhijian Ren; Jiashu Huang; Yufeng Chen 003 (Sci. Robotics, 2025)