Automation and Interventional Medicine (AIM) Robotics Laboratory, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
The AIM Robotics Laboratory at WPI focuses on medical robotics and computer-integrated surgery to provide real-time feedback guidance during surgical procedures. Research emphasizes closed-loop medicine using robot-assisted systems for improved surgical outcomes.
Notable achievements
MRI-compatible surgical robotics, image-guided surgical interventions, real-time surgical feedback systems
Notable work
Recent publications
All papers →Matched by this lab's specialties (keyword overlap + direct affiliation)
A hierarchical approach to imitation learning for manipulation tasks requiring time varying forces
Rishabh Shukla, Adithya Santhosh, Shaili Gandhi +2 more
Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing · 2026
What Are We Actually Benchmarking in Robot Manipulation?
Tianchong Jiang, Xiangshan Tan, Samuel Wheeler +3 more
2026
DLO-Lab: Benchmarking Deformable Linear Object Manipulations with Differentiable Physics
Junyi Cao, Yian Wang, Ziyan Xiong +3 more
2026
VLAConf: Calibrated Task-Success Confidence for Vision-Language-Action Models
Dehao Huang, Aoxiang Gu, Chengjie Zhang +5 more
2026
Single twistable tendon-driven continuum robots.
Lai J, Liu Y, Ren TA +5 more
Nature communications · 2026
HABIT: Human-Aware Behavior and Interaction Training Dataset for Robot Manipulation
Jaehwi Song, Suchae Jeong, Byeongguk Jeon +4 more
2026