Journal History | Robotics

2012	The inaugural issue was released. Robotics was published as a quarterly journal.
2013	Robotics was indexed in DBLP Computer Science Bibliography (Universität Trier). Robotics was indexed in Inspec (IET).
2016	Robotics was indexed in Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI)—Web of Science (Clarivate Analytics), starting with Volume 1 (Issue 1).
2017	Robotics was indexed in Scopus (Elsevier), starting with Volume 3 (Issue 1). Robotics announced the first edition of the Travel Award.
2019	Robotics received its CiteScore (2018) of 1.53.
2020	Robotics received its CiteScore (2019) of 2.5.
2021	Robotics received its CiteScore (2020) of 3.5. The year 2021 marked the 10th Anniversary of Robotics.
2022	Robotics received its CiteScore (2021) of 4.9.
2023	Robotics received its first Impact Factor (3.7). Robotics received its CiteScore (2022) of 5.9.
2024	Robotics adopted a monthly publication schedule.

Editor-in-Chief

2012–2019	Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Huosheng Hu
2020–present	Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Marco Ceccarelli

2020–present	Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Giuseppe Carbone for the Section on Intelligent Robots and Mechatronics
2020–2024	Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Gursel Alici for the Section on Soft Robotics Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Roberto Sabatini for the Section on Aerospace Robotics and Autonomous Systems
2022–present	Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Xinjun Liu for the Section on Industrial Robots and Automation
2022–2024	Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Antonio Frisoli for the Section on Humanoid and Human Robotics Section Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Hai Wang for the Section on Agricultural and Field Robotics
2023–present	Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Saïd Zeghloul for the Section on Medical Robotics and Service Robotics Section Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Thierry Chaminade for the Section on Neurorobotics
2024–present	Section Editor-in-Chief: Dr. David Portugal for the Section on Agricultural and Field Robotics Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Kean C. Aw for the Section on Soft Robotics Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Kensuke Harada for the Section on Humanoid and Human Robotics Section Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Sunan Huang for the Section on Aerospace Robotics and Autonomous Systems
2025–present	Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Beno Benhabib for the Section on Sensors and Control in Robotics Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Igor Verner for the Section on Educational Robotics