| 2011 | ICRA | Demonstrating the benefits of variable impedance to telerobotic task execution. | Daniel S. Walker, John Kenneth Salisbury Jr., Gnter Niemeyer |
| 2005 | ICRA | A Criterion for the PassivitY of Haptic Devices. | Nicola Diolaiti, Gnter Niemeyer, Federico Barbagli, John Kenneth Salisbury Jr. |
| 2004 | MICCAI | An Event-Driven Framework for the Simulation of Complex Surgical Procedures. | Christopher M. Sewell, Dan Morris, Nikolas H. Blevins, Federico Barbagli, John Kenneth Salisbury Jr. |
| 2003 | ICRA | Enabling multi-finger, multi-hand virtualized grasping. | Federico Barbagli, John Kenneth Salisbury Jr., Roman Devengenzo |
| 2001 | MICCAI | In Vivo Data Acquisition Instrument for Solid Organ Mechanical Property Measurement. | Mark P. Ottensmeyer, John Kenneth Salisbury Jr. |
| 2000 | ICRA | The Intuitive | Gary Guthart, John Kenneth Salisbury Jr. |
| 2000 | MICCAI | Comparison of Three High-End Endoscopic Visualization Systems on Telesurgical Performance. | David Mintz, Volkmar Falk, John Kenneth Salisbury Jr. |
| 1998 | IROS | The Black Falcon: a teleoperated surgical instrument for minimally invasive surgery. | Akhil J. Madhani, Gnter Niemeyer, John Kenneth Salisbury Jr. |
| 1995 | IROS | A constraint-based god-object method for haptic display. | Craig B. Zilles, John Kenneth Salisbury Jr. |
| 1989 | ICRA | Augmentation of grasp robustness using intrinsic tactile sensing. | Antonio Bicchi, John Kenneth Salisbury Jr., Paolo Dario |
| 1987 | ICRA | The Effect of coulomb friction and stiction on force control. | William T. Townsend, John Kenneth Salisbury Jr. |
| 1984 | ICRA | Interpretation of contact geometries from force measurements. | John Kenneth Salisbury Jr. |