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
How VLAs Fail Differently: Black-Box Action Monitoring Reveals Architecture-Specific Failure Signatures
Krishnam Gupta
2026
What Frozen VLAs Already Know About Success: A Probing Study of Value-Like Structure in Foundation Robot Policies
Jiachen Zhang, Junnan Nie, Junyi Lao +4 more
2026
OSMa-Bench++: Toward Open-Ended Benchmarking of Semantic Mapping for Manipulation with Prompt-Generated Synthetic Scenes
Regina Kurkova, Maxim Popov, Sergey Kolyubin
2026
EXPO-FT: Sample-Efficient Reinforcement Learning Finetuning for Vision-Language-Action Models
Perry Dong, Kuo-Han Hung, Tian Gao +2 more
2026
GAP: Geometric Anchor Pre-training for Data-Efficient Visuomotor Learning of Manipulation Tasks
Davide Buoso, Andrea Protopapa, Stefano Di Carlo +2 more
2026