Robotics and Medical Systems (RaMS) Laboratory, University of California Riverside
The RaMS Laboratory at UC Riverside Department of Mechanical Engineering specializes in soft and compliant robots for medical and agricultural applications. Research focuses on minimally invasive surgery, cancer detection, drug delivery, rehabilitation, and harvesting using compliant robotic systems.
Notable achievements
Soft robotics for minimally invasive surgery, compliant medical devices
Notable work
Recent publications
All papers →Matched by this lab's specialties (keyword overlap + direct affiliation)
Soft robotics for chemists.
Filip Ilievski, Aaron D. Mazzeo, R. Shepherd +2 more
Angewandte Chemie · 2011
Research and development in agricultural robotics: a perspective of digital farming.
R. Shamshiri, Cornelia Weltzien, I. Hameed +6 more
International Journal of Agricultural and Biological Engineering · 2018
Flexible Electronics and Devices as Human-Machine Interfaces for Medical Robotics
Wenzheng Heng, Samuel A. Solomon, Wei Gao
Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.) · 2021
A narrative review on artificial intelligence in advanced drug delivery systems: Nanomedicine, GEMs and smart robotics
Umesh D. Laddha, Chanchal S. Pagar, Suwarta G. Wakchaure +3 more
Next Nanotechnology · 2026
Biomolecular “lock-key” model-inspired cage/benzene ring structure chain-extension matching strategy for high performance of linear waterborne polyurethane toward application in recyclable soft robotics
Chen Zhou, Nana Zhao, Xiaoxiao Yang +5 more
Journal of Colloid and Interface Science · 2026
Optimization-based shape design of soft-rigid hybrid fingers for adaptive parallel robotic gripper
Yilun Sun, Zengwei Wang, Tim C. Lueth
Biomimetic Intelligence and Robotics · 2026