Healthcare Robotics Lab
The Healthcare Robotics Lab at UC San Diego, led by Dr. Laurel Riek, focuses on human-robot interaction, health informatics, and assistive technology in healthcare settings. The lab conducts participatory, community-based research with disabled people, healthcare workers, and community members. Research applications include neurorehabilitation, dementia caregiving, and emergency medicine.
Notable achievements
Research in neurorehabilitation and dementia caregiving robotics; community-centered design practices
Notable work
Recent publications
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Copilot: A framework for integrating LLM and BMI to enhance human–robot interaction
Siyu Liu, Mengzhen Liu, Zhiyuan Ming +6 more
Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing · 2026
Artificial pushing adaptive coordinated control for the human-exoskeleton-walker system
Xinhao Zhang, Chen Yang, Chaobin Zou +4 more
Robotics and Autonomous Systems · 2026
Safety-Critical Adaptive Impedance Control via Nonsmooth Control Barrier Functions under State and Input Constraints
Faisal Lawan, Xiaoran Han, Joaquin Carrasco +2 more
2026
Guide, Think, Act: Interactive Embodied Reasoning in Vision-Language-Action Models
Yiran Ling, Qing Lian, Jinghang Li +6 more
2026
Clin-JEPA: A Multi-Phase Co-Training Framework for Joint-Embedding Predictive Pretraining on EHR Patient Trajectories
Yixuan Yang, Mehak Arora, Ryan Zhang +10 more
2026
Artificial intelligence can replace nursing tasks, but not nurses: Examining artificial intelligence's supports and threats to nursing practice through the lens of the 2025 Nursing Code of Ethics.
Ball Dunlap PA, Marquard J, Delaney C +7 more
Nursing outlook · 2026