Papers
118
Total Citations
1,984
H-Index
22
About
Lining Sun is a pioneering robotics researcher whose work spans soft robotics, microrobotics, and bio-inspired robotic systems, with a particular focus on novel materials and intelligent design at multiple scales. His most celebrated contributions center on liquid microrobots and ferrofluidic systems — most notably his groundbreaking 2020 work on ferrofluid droplets as deformable liquid microrobots (122 citations) and scale-reconfigurable ferrofluidic robots capable of navigating sharply variable spaces (106 citations), advances with profound implications for minimally invasive biomedical applications. Sun has also made significant strides in liquid metal robotics, developing programmable droplet systems and liquid metal-based bionic sensors integrated into soft caterpillar robots (98 citations). His engineering breadth is further demonstrated through ultra-lightweight dielectric elastomer manipulators, fast-hopping soft robots, and quadruped locomotion systems with bionic springy legs. More recently, his research has expanded into AI-enhanced micro/nanorobotics within microfluidic environments (54 citations), reflecting a forward-looking integration of machine intelligence with miniaturized robotic platforms. With over 860 cumulative citations across his top works, Sun's contributions have substantially shaped the frontier of reconfigurable, soft, and intelligent robotic systems.
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Key Achievements
Top Papers
- 1Ferrofluid Droplets as Liquid Microrobots with Multiple Deformabilities122 citations · 2020
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- 4Control of a Quadruped Robot with Bionic Springy Legs in Trotting Gait97 citations · 2014
- 5A Super-Lightweight and Soft Manipulator Driven by Dielectric Elastomers86 citations · 2020
- 6Liquid metal droplet robot83 citations · 2020
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- 8Programmable Digital Liquid Metal Droplets in Reconfigurable Magnetic Fields75 citations · 2020
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- 10AI-enhanced biomedical micro/nanorobots in microfluidics54 citations · 2024