| 2014 | IROS | Actor-critic design using echo state networks in a simulated quadruped robot. | Nico M. Schmidt, Matthias Baumgartner, Rolf Pfeifer |
| 2013 | IJCAI | Soft Robotics: The Next Generation of Intelligent Machines. | Rolf Pfeifer, Hugo Gravato Marques, Fumiya Iida |
| 2013 | ICRA | Online learning for behavior switching in a soft robotic arm. | Tao Li, Kohei Nakajima, Rolf Pfeifer |
| 2013 | ICRA | Computing with a muscular-hydrostat system. | Kohei Nakajima, Helmut Hauser, Rongjie Kang, Emanuele Guglielmino, Darwin G. Caldwell, Rolf Pfeifer |
| 2013 | IROS | Visual servo control of cable-driven soft robotic manipulator. | Hesheng Wang, Weidong Chen, Xiaojin Yu, Tao Deng, Xiaozhou Wang, Rolf Pfeifer |
| 2013 | IROS | Spine dynamics as a computational resource in spine-driven quadruped locomotion. | Qian Zhao, Kohei Nakajima, Hidenobu Sumioka, Helmut Hauser, Rolf Pfeifer |
| 2012 | CogSci | Robotics and Emotion. | Rolf Pfeifer, Hiroshi Ishiguro, Yuichiro Anzai, Naomi Miyake |
| 2012 | IJCCI | "Morphological Computation" - Self-organization, Embodiment, and Biological Inspiration. | Rolf Pfeifer |
| 2012 | ICRA | Wearable haptic device for cutaneous force and slip speed display. | Dana D. Damian, Marvin Ludersdorfer, Yeongmi Kim, Alejandro Hernndez Arieta, Rolf Pfeifer, Allison M. Okamura |
| 2012 | ICRA | Behavior switching using reservoir computing for a soft robotic arm. | Tao Li, Kohei Nakajima, Matteo Cianchetti, Cecilia Laschi, Rolf Pfeifer |
| 2012 | IJCNN | Timing-based control via echo state network for soft robotic arm. | Junichi Kuwabara, Kohei Nakajima, Rongjie Kang, David T. Branson, Emanuele Guglielmino, Darwin G. Caldwell, Rolf Pfeifer |
| 2012 | IROS | Embodiment enables the spinal engine in quadruped robot locomotion. | Qian Zhao, Kohei Nakajima, Hidenobu Sumioka, Xiaoxiang Yu, Rolf Pfeifer |
| 2011 | GECCO | Biologically inspired control of a simulated octopus ARM via recurrent neural networks. | Kohei Nakajima, Tao Li, Naveen Kuppuswamy, Rolf Pfeifer |
| 2011 | ICRA | A novel mechanism for varying stiffness via changing transmission angle. | Hung Quy Vu, Lijin Aryananda, Farrukh Iqbal Sheikh, Flurin Casanova, Rolf Pfeifer |
| 2011 | IROS | Computation with mechanically coupled springs for compliant robots. | Hidenobu Sumioka, Helmut Hauser, Rolf Pfeifer |
| 2011 | ICRA | Varying body stiffness for aquatic locomotion. | Marc Ziegler, Matej Hoffmann, Juan Pablo Carbajal, Rolf Pfeifer |
| 2011 | SMC | Attempt on plant machine interface. | Dominique Cadosch, Po-Ting Huang, Dana D. Damian, Shuhei Miyashita, Atsushi Aoyama, Rolf Pfeifer |
| 2010 | ALIFE | Crowdsourcing, Open Innovation and Collective Intelligence in the Scientific Method - A Research Agenda and Operational Framework. | Thierry Buecheler, Jan Henrik Sieg, Rudolf M. Fchslin, Rolf Pfeifer |
| 2010 | ALIFE | Self-organized Segregation Effect on Water Based Self-Assembling Robots. | Aubery Marchel Tientcheu Ngouabeu, Shuhei Miyashita, Rudolf M. Fchslin, Kohei Nakajima, Maurice Gldi, Rolf Pfeifer |
| 2010 | IROS | Artificial ridged skin for slippage speed detection in prosthetic hand applications. | Dana D. Damian, Harold Martinez, Konstantinos Dermitzakis, Alejandro Hernndez Arieta, Rolf Pfeifer |
| 2009 | HCI | Collaborative Work in 3D Virtual Environments: A Research Agenda and Operational Framework. | Batrice S. Hasler, Thierry Buecheler, Rolf Pfeifer |
| 2009 | IROS | Morphology detection for magnetically self-assembled modular robots. | Zoltn Nagy, Shuhei Miyashita, Simon Muntwyler, Ashish Cherukuri, Jake J. Abbott, Rolf Pfeifer, Bradley J. Nelson |
| 2008 | ICRA | Multimodal saliency-based bottom-up attention a framework for the humanoid robot iCub. | Jonas Ruesch, Manuel Lopes, Alexandre Bernardino, Jonas Hrnstein, Jos Santos-Victor, Rolf Pfeifer |
| 2008 | IROS | Peltier-based freeze-thaw connector for waterborne self-assembly systems. | Shuhei Miyashita, Flurin Casanova, Max Lungarella, Rolf Pfeifer |
| 2008 | IROS | Tribolon: Water based self-assembly robot with freezing connector (video). | Shuhei Miyashita, Flurin Casanova, Max Lungarella, Rolf Pfeifer |
| 2005 | IROS | Emergence of delayed reward learning from sensorimotor coordination. | Simon Bovet, Rolf Pfeifer |
| 2004 | IROS | Development of a whisker sensor system and simulation of active whisking for agent navigation. | Hiroshi Yokoi, Miriam Fend, Rolf Pfeifer |
| 2003 | ICANN | Dimensionality Reduction through Sensory-Motor Coordination. | I. Ren J. A. te Boekhorst, Max Lungarella, Rolf Pfeifer |
| 2003 | ICANN | Optimal Coding for Naturally Occurring Whisker Deflections. | Verena Vanessa Hafner, Miriam Fend, Max Lungarella, Rolf Pfeifer, Peter Knig, Konrad P. Krding |
| 2003 | IROS | An active artificial whisker array for texture discrimination. | Miriam Fend, Simon Bovet, Hiroshi Yokoi, Rolf Pfeifer |
| 2002 | GECCO | Behavioural Selection Pressure Generates Hierarchical Genetic Regulatory Networks. | Josh C. Bongard, Rolf Pfeifer |
| 2002 | GI | Embodied Artificial Intelligence - On the role of morphology and materials in the emergence of cognitition. | Rolf Pfeifer |
| 2002 | ICANN | An Optimal Sensor Morphology Improves Adaptability of Neural Network Controllers. | Lukas Lichtensteiger, Rolf Pfeifer |
| 2002 | IROS | An artificial whisker sensor for robotics. | Max Lungarella, Verena Vanessa Hafner, Rolf Pfeifer, Hiroshi Yokoi |
| 2000 | SOFSEM | Cheap Vision-Exploiting Ecological Niche and Morphology. | Rolf Pfeifer, Dimitrios Lambrinos |
| 1999 | KI | Dynamics, Morpholgy, and Materials in the Emergence of Cognition. | Rolf Pfeifer |
| 1997 | ICANN | Information Theoretic Implications of Embodiment for Neural Network Learning. | Christian Scheier, Rolf Pfeifer |
| 1993 | SEKE | Situated Software Design. | Hubert F. Hofmann, Rolf Pfeifer, Erik Vinkhuyzen |
| 1992 | ECAI | The Role of Knowledge Level Models in Situated Adaptive Design. | Philip Rademakers, Rolf Pfeifer |
| 1991 | IJCAI | Cooperative Hybrid Systems. | Matthias Gutknecht, Rolf Pfeifer, Markus Stolze |
| 1991 | IJCAI | Building Human-Centred Intelligent Cooperative Information Systems with IKEA. | Markus Stolze, Matthias Gutknecht, Rolf Pfeifer |
| 1991 | WI | Situated Adaptive Design: Toward a New Methodology for Knowledge Systems Development. | Rolf Pfeifer, Philip Rademakers |
| 1982 | ECAI | Toward Computational Models of Emotion. | Rolf Pfeifer, D. W. Nicholas |