| 2017 | GECCO | A baseline-realistic objective open-ended kinematics simulator for evolutionary robotics. | Riley Konsella, Frank Chiarulli, John Peterson, John Rieffel |
| 2015 | GECCO | Growing and Evolving Vibrationally Actuated Soft Robots. | Benjamin Berger, Alvin Andino, Andrew Danise, John Rieffel |
| 2014 | ALIFE | Evolution of Locomotion on a Physical Tensegrity Robot. | Mark Khazanov, Julian Jocque, John Rieffel |
| 2014 | GECCO | Developing morphological computation in tensegrity robots for controllable actuation. | Mark Khazanov, Julian Jocque, John Rieffel |
| 2013 | GECCO | Heterochronic scaling of developmental durations in evolved soft robots. | John Rieffel |
| 2012 | ALIFE | Automatically Designing and Printing 3-D Objects with EvoFab 0.2. | Tim Khn, John Rieffel |
| 2012 | GECCO | Growing and evolving soft robots with a face-encoding tetrahedral grammar. | John Rieffel, Schuyler Smith |
| 2010 | ALIFE | A Face-Encoding Grammar for the Generation of Tetrahedral-Mesh Soft Bodies. | John Rieffel, Schuyler Smith |
| 2010 | ALIFE | Body/Brain Co-Evolution in Soft Robots. | John Rieffel, Barry Trimmer |
| 2009 | GECCO | Evolving soft robotic locomotion in PhysX. | John Rieffel, Frank Saunders, Shilpa Nadimpalli, Harvey Zhou, Soha Hassoun, Jason H. Rife, Barry Trimmer |
| 2008 | ALIFE | Mechanism as Mind - What Tensegrities and Caterpillars Can Teach Us about Soft Robotics. | John Rieffel, Barry Trimmer, Hod Lipson |
| 2007 | GECCO | Growing form-filling tensegrity structures using map L-systems. | John Rieffel, Hod Lipson, Francisco J. Valero Cuevas |
| 2005 | CEC | Crossing the fabrication gap: evolving assembly plans to build 3-D objects. | John Rieffel, Jordan B. Pollack |
| 2005 | GECCO | Automated assembly as situated development: using artificial ontogenies to evolve buildable 3-D objects. | John Rieffel, Jordan B. Pollack |
| 2005 | GECCO | Evolutionary fabrication: the emergence of novel assembly methods in artificial ontogenies. | John Rieffel, Jordan B. Pollack |
| 2004 | GECCO | The Emergence of Ontogenic Scaffolding in a Stochastic Development Environment. | John Rieffel, Jordan B. Pollack |