| 2020 | IROS | Design of a Highly-Maneuverable Pneumatic Soft Actuator Driven by Intrinsic SMA Coils (PneuSMA Actuator) | Emily A. Allen, John P. Swensen |
| 2020 | IROS | Resultant Radius of Curvature of Stylet-and-Tube Steerable Needles Based on the Mechanical Properties of the Soft Tissue, and the Needle. | Fan Yang, Mahdieh Babaiasl, Yao Chen, Jow-Lian Ding, John P. Swensen |
| 2019 | IROS | Configuration Modeling of a Soft Robotic Element with Selectable Bending Axes. | Emily A. Allen, Brandon C. Townsend, John P. Swensen |
| 2017 | ICRA | Compliant, bi-stable mechanisms with multiple stiffnesses through controlled spring buckling. | Brian LaFerriere, Carson E. Schlect, John P. Swensen |
| 2015 | IROS | Design of mesoscale active cells for networked, compliant robotic structures. | Ahsan I. Nawroj, John P. Swensen, Aaron M. Dollar |
| 2015 | ICRA | Injected 3D electrical traces in additive manufactured parts with low melting temperature metals. | John P. Swensen, Lael U. Odhner, Brandon Araki, Aaron M. Dollar |
| 2014 | ICRA | Optimization of parallel spring antagonists for Nitinol shape memory alloy actuators. | John P. Swensen, Aaron M. Dollar |
| 2014 | ICRA | Simple, scalable active cells for articulated robot structures. | John P. Swensen, Ahsan I. Nawroj, Paul E. I. Pounds, Aaron M. Dollar |
| 2012 | ICRA | Torsional dynamics compensation enhances robotic control of tip-steerable needles. | John P. Swensen, Noah J. Cowan |
| 2007 | IROS | Kernel-based visual servoing. | Vinutha Kallem, Maneesh Dewan, John P. Swensen, Gregory D. Hager, Noah J. Cowan |