Advanced Robotics and Controls Laboratory (ARCLab)
ARCLab at UC San Diego, directed by Dr. Michael Yip, focuses on surgical robots, biomimetic design, and robot learning. The lab's research has won best paper awards at ICRA, IROS, and RA-L, and has spawned multiple startup companies.
Notable achievements
NSF CAREER award, NIH Trailblazer award, RAS Distinguished Lecturer, startup companies
Notable work
Recent publications
All papers →Matched by this lab's specialties (keyword overlap + direct affiliation)
Robotics in Plastic Surgery
Vijay Kumar, Sandhya Pandey
Clinical Journal of Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery · 2026
Dynamic performance evaluation of an RCM parallel robot with different actuation configurations
Haige Liu, Jiahao Qiu, Bin Zhu +2 more
Robotics and Autonomous Systems · 2026
An Attention-based Model for Robust Forecasting with Missing Modality
Zhitian Zhang, Wenjie Zi, Yunduz Rakhmangulova +3 more
2026
GeoCFNet: Geometry-Aware Confidence Field Network for Robot-Assisted Endoscopic Submucosal Dissection
Rui Tang, Guankun Wang, Long Bai +5 more
2026
MiraBench: Evaluating Action-Conditioned Reliability in Robotic World Models
Tianzhuo Yang, Zihan Shen, Zirui Mi +7 more
2026
Advances in intelligent assistance operative adjuncts for unicompartmental knee arthroplasty: A bibliometric analysis of research trends and developments.
Shi R, An S, Wang J +8 more
Digital health · 2026