| 2022 | IROS | PCBot: a Minimalist Robot Designed for Swarm Applications. | Jingxian Wang, Michael Rubenstein |
| 2020 | IROS | Automatic Control Synthesis for Swarm Robots from Formation and Location-based High-level Specifications. | Ji Chen, Hanlin Wang, Michael Rubenstein, Hadas Kress-Gazit |
| 2020 | IROS | FireAnt3D: a 3D self-climbing robot towards non-latticed robotic self-assembly. | Petras Swissler, Michael Rubenstein |
| 2020 | ICRA | A Fast, Accurate, and Scalable Probabilistic Sample-Based Approach for Counting Swarm Size. | Hanlin Wang, Michael Rubenstein |
| 2019 | IROS | Efficient and Guaranteed Planar Pose Graph optimization Using the Complex Number Representation. | Taosha Fan, Hanlin Wang, Michael Rubenstein, Todd D. Murphey |
| 2018 | ICRA | Using Hardware Specialization and Hierarchy to Simplify Robotic Swarms. | German Espinosa, Michael Rubenstein |
| 2018 | ICRA | FireAnt: A Modular Robot with Full-Body Continuous Docks. | Petras Swissler, Michael Rubenstein |
| 2017 | IROS | Low cost sensing and communication system for rotor-craft. | Marc Gyongyosi, Alexander Daley, Blake Resnick, Michael Rubenstein |
| 2017 | IROS | Flippy: A soft, autonomous climber with simple sensing and control. | Melinda J. D. Malley, Michael Rubenstein, Radhika Nagpal |
| 2016 | IROS | Feedback-controlled self-folding of autonomous robot collectives. | Martin E. W. Nisser, Samuel M. Felton, Michael Thomas Tolley, Michael Rubenstein, Robert J. Wood |
| 2016 | IROS | Autonomous mobile robot with independent control and externally driven actuation. | Hanlin Wang, Michael Rubenstein |
| 2015 | ICRA | AERobot: An affordable one-robot-per-student system for early robotics education. | Michael Rubenstein, Bo Cimino, Radhika Nagpal, Justin Werfel |
| 2015 | ICRA | Towards self-assembled structures with mobile climbing robots. | Lucian Cucu, Michael Rubenstein, Radhika Nagpal |
| 2013 | IROS | Massive uniform manipulation: Controlling large populations of simple robots with a common input signal. | Aaron T. Becker, Golnaz Habibi, Justin Werfel, Michael Rubenstein, James McLurkin |
| 2012 | ICRA | Kilobot: A low cost scalable robot system for collective behaviors. | Michael Rubenstein, Christian Ahler, Radhika Nagpal |
| 2010 | IROS | Automatic scalable size selection for the shape of a distributed robotic collective. | Michael Rubenstein, Wei-Min Shen |
| 2009 | IROS | TENTACLES: Self-configuring robotic radio networks in unknown environments. | Harris Chi Ho Chiu, Bo Ryu, Hua Zhu, Pedro A. Szekely, Rajiv T. Maheswaran, Craig Milo Rogers, Aram Galstyan, Behnam Salemi, Michael Rubenstein, Wei-Min Shen |
| 2009 | IROS | Scalable self-assembly and self-repair in a collective of robots. | Michael Rubenstein, Wei-Min Shen |
| 2009 | ICRA | SINGO: A single-end-operative and genderless connector for self-reconfiguration, self-assembly and self-healing. | Wei-Min Shen, Robert Kovac, Michael Rubenstein |
| 2008 | IROS | A scalable and distributed approach for self-assembly and self-healing of a differentiated shape. | Michael Rubenstein, Wei-Min Shen |
| 2007 | IROS | Multifunctional behaviors of reconfigurable superbot robots. | Wei-Min Shen, Behnam Salemi, Mark Moll, Michael Rubenstein, Harris Chi Ho Chiu, Jacob Everist, Feili Hou, Nadeesha Ranasinghe |
| 2006 | ICRA | Multimode Locomotion via SuperBot Robots. | Wei-Min Shen, Maks Krivokon, Harris Chi Ho Chiu, Jacob Everist, Michael Rubenstein, Jagadesh Venkatesh |
| 2004 | ICRA | Docking Among Independent and Autonomous CONRO Self-reconfigurable Robots. | Michael Rubenstein, Kenneth Payne, Peter M. Will, Wei-Min Shen |
| 2004 | IROS | Robotic enzyme-based autonomous self-replication. | Michael Rubenstein, Maks Krivokon, Wei-Min Shen |