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
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