2026 Mark R. Cutkosky: Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering	92	101	93	52	45	432	30978

Research.com Recognitions

2026 - Research.com Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in United States Leader Award
2014 - Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers

Overview

Mark R. Cutkosky is affiliated with Stanford University in the United States and has a research profile focused on engineering, with a specialization in biomedical engineering, cognitive neuroscience, control and systems engineering, mechanical engineering, and mechanics of materials. Their research encompasses a range of fields connected to robotics and sensory technologies.

Their recent work includes the following papers:

Bird-inspired dynamic grasping and perching in arboreal environments, 2021, Science Robotics
From grasping to manipulation with gecko-inspired adhesives on a multifinger gripper, 2021, Science Robotics
Angle-selective thermal emitter for directional radiative cooling and heating, 2023, Joule
UV-laser-machined stretchable multi-modal sensor network for soft robot interaction, 2022, npj Flexible Electronics
Haptic Surface Display based on Miniature Dielectric Fluid Transducers, 2020, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters

Frequent coauthors in their publications include:

Tony G. Chen
Marco Pavone
Amy Kyungwon Han
Amar Hajj-Ahmad
Hojung Choi

The main venues in which Mark R. Cutkosky has published are:

arXiv (Cornell University)
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters
Advanced Materials Technologies
Science Robotics
2022 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)

Their research addresses several core topics within engineering and robotics:

Robot Manipulation and Learning
Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials
Tactile and Sensory Interactions
Soft Robotics and Applications
Modular Robots and Swarm Intelligence
Adhesion, Friction, and Surface Interactions
Muscle activation and electromyography studies

Mark R. Cutkosky was awarded Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers in 2014.

Best Publications

On grasp choice, grasp models, and the design of hands for manufacturing tasks

M.R. Cutkosky

1967
Citations
PACT: an experiment in integrating concurrent engineering systems

M.R. Cutkosky;R.S. Engelmore;R.E. Fikes;M.R. Genesereth

976
Citations
Smooth Vertical Surface Climbing With Directional Adhesion

Sangbae Kim;M. Spenko;S. Trujillo;B. Heyneman

801
Citations
Frictional adhesion: A new angle on gecko attachment.

K. Autumn;A. Dittmore;D. Santos;M. Spenko

775
Citations
An overview of dexterous manipulation

A.M. Okamura;N. Smaby;M.R. Cutkosky

634
Citations
Biologically inspired climbing with a hexapedal robot

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525
Citations
Computing and controlling compliance of a robotic hand

M.R. Cutkosky;I. Kao

503
Citations
Biologically inspired climbing with a hexapedal robot

M. J. Spenko;G. C. Haynes;J. A. Saunders;M. R. Cutkosky

479
Citations
Robotic grasping and fine manipulation

Mark R. Cutkosky

432
Citations
Fast and Robust

Jorge G. Cham;Sean A. Bailey;Jonathan E. Clark;Robert J. Full

411
Citations
Scaling Hard Vertical Surfaces with Compliant Microspine Arrays

Alan T. Asbeck;Sangbae Kim;M. R. Cutkosky;William R. Provancher

393
Citations
Human grasp choice and robotic grasp analysis

Mark R. Cutkosky;Robert D. Howe

388
Citations
A Soft Robotic Gripper With Gecko-Inspired Adhesive

Paul Glick;Srinivasan A. Suresh;Donald Ruffatto;Mark R. Cutkosky

361
Citations
iSprawl: Design and Tuning for High-speed Autonomous Open-loop Running

Sangbae Kim;Jonathan E. Clark;Mark R. Cutkosky

353
Citations
Estimating friction using incipient slip sensing during a manipulation task

M.R. Tremblay;M.R. Cutkosky

350
Citations
Sensing skin acceleration for slip and texture perception

R.D. Howe;M.R. Cutkosky

349
Citations
Whole body adhesion: hierarchical, directional and distributed control of adhesive forces for a climbing robot

Sangbae Kim;M. Spenko;S. Trujillo;B. Heyneman

346
Citations
The SPRING Hand: Development of a Self-Adaptive Prosthesis for Restoring Natural Grasping

M. C. Carrozza;C. Suppo;F. Sebastiani;B. Massa

334
Citations
Real-Time Estimation of 3-D Needle Shape and Deflection for MRI-Guided Interventions

Yong-Lae Park;Santhi Elayaperumal;Bruce Daniel;Seok Chang Ryu

326
Citations
Dynamic tactile sensing: perception of fine surface features with stress rate sensing

R.D. Howe;M.R. Cutkosky

317
Citations
A microfabricated wedge-shaped adhesive array displaying gecko-like dynamic adhesion, directionality and long lifetime

Aaron Parness;Daniel Soto;Noé Esparza;Nick Gravish

316
Citations
Madefast: collaborative engineering over the Internet

Mark R. Cutkosky;Jay M. Tenenbaum;Jay Glicksman

296
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Elliot W. Hawkes University of California, Santa Barbara

Robert D. Howe Harvard University

Sangbae Kim MIT

Allison M. Okamura Stanford University

Yong-Lae Park Seoul National University

Oussama Khatib Stanford University

Paul K. Wright University of California, Berkeley

Robert J. Full University of California, Berkeley

Subbarao Kambhampati Arizona State University

Nicola Pugno University of Trento

External Links

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