Medical Robotics Laboratory, University of Central Florida
The Medical Robotics Laboratory at UCF brings together faculty and local hospital partners to research surgical robotics, teleoperation, and virtual reality technologies. The lab conducts multidisciplinary research in medical robotic surgery, surgical simulation, and virtual mentoring.
Notable achievements
State-of-the-art medical robotic surgery techniques, tele-surgery systems, augmented reality surgical applications
Notable work
Recent publications
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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