Michael Yip
Professor
Develops robot learning, planning and autonomous surgical robotics.
Michael Yip's lab at UCSD works on manipulation & robot learning, planning, control & multi-robot systems and embodied & active vision. 61 papers since 2023, 45 at top venues, mostly ICRA and IROS. 8 PhD students and 5 master's students. 35 alumni. Applications close .
At a glance
- papers, 2023–2026
- 16/ year
- at T1 venues
- 74%
- PhD students
- 8
- MS students
- 5
- alumni listed
- 35
Papers by yearfrom the lab homepage, 2023–2026
- 4 papers2026 · T1 4 · collecting
- 22 papers2025 · T1 17
- 21 papers2024 · T1 15
- 14 papers2023 · T1 9
T1 venuesOtherVenues: ICRA, IROS, RA-L, CVPR, RSS
Research focuspaper titles that use each topic's words
- Manipulation & robot learning22 papers
- Planning, control & multi-robot systems16 papers
- Embodied & active vision2 papers
- develops robot0 papers
- surgical robotics0 papers
Paper list
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20264 papers
- Nature (T1)In vivo feasibility study of humanoid robots in surgery
- IROS (T1)Real-time Rendering-based Surgical Instrument Tracking via Evolutionary Optimization
- IROS (T1)Reeling It In: Flexible Needle Pick Up via Thread Manipulation for Autonomous Suturing
- IROS (T1)SteadyTray: Learning Object Balancing Tasks in Humanoid Tray Transport via Residual Reinforcement Learning
202522 papers
- Cureus3D Rendering of Cystoscopy Video Footage: A Novel Method Utilizing Neural Radiance Field Processing
- IROS (T1)ARCSnake V2: An Amphibious Multi-Domain Screw-Propelled Snake-Like Robot
- RA-LAutonomous Image-to-Grasp Robotic Suturing Using Reliability-Driven Suture Thread Reconstruction
- ICRA (T1)AutoPeel: Adhesion-aware Safe Peeling Trajectory Optimization for Robotic Wound Care
- L4DCBack to Base: Towards Hands-Off Learning via Safe Resets with Reach-Avoid Safety Filters
- WACVBASED: Bundle-adjusting surgical endoscopic dynamic video reconstruction using neural radiance fields
- ICRA (T1)Characterization and Evaluation of Screw-Based Locomotion Across Aquatic, Granular, and Transitional Media
- ICRA (T1)CtRNet-X: Camera-to-Robot Pose Estimation in Real-world Conditions Using a Single Camera
- IROS (T1)Differentiable Rendering-based Pose Estimation for Surgical Robotic Instruments
- ICRA (T1)Dynamically Extensible and Retractable Robotic Leg Linkages for Multi-task Execution in Search and Rescue Scenarios
- IROS (T1)Efficient Surgical Robotic Instrument Pose Reconstruction in Real World Conditions Using Unified Feature Detection
- ICRA (T1)Feedback Matters: Augmenting Autonomous Dissection with Visual and Topological Feedback
202421 papers
- ICRA (T1)Achieving Autonomous Cloth Manipulation with Optimal Control via Differentiable Physics-Aware Regularization and Safety Constraints
- ICRA (T1)AnyOKP: One-Shot and Instance-Aware Object Keypoint Extraction with Pretrained ViT
- CVPR (T1)BAA-NGP: Bundle-adjusting accelerated neural graphics primitives
- IROS WorkshopBridging Real-to-Sim Gaps through Online Stiffness Optimization with Perception-Enabled Residual Mapping
- T-RO (T1)CRANE: A Redundant, Multi-Degree-of-Freedom Computed Tomography Robot for Heightened Needle Dexterity within a Medical Imaging Bore
- RSS (T1)DROID: A large-scale in-the-wild robot manipulation dataset
- NeurIPS (T1)Flexible attention-based multi-policy fusion for efficient deep reinforcement learning
- ISMRHemoSet: The First Blood Segmentation Dataset for Automation of Hemostasis Management
- RSS (T1)JIGGLE: An Active Sensing Framework for Boundary Parameters Estimation in Deformable Surgical Environments
- ISRRNASU--Novel Actuating Screw Unit: Origami-inspired Screw-based Propulsion on Mobile Ground Robots
- ICRA (T1)Open x-embodiment: Robotic learning datasets and rt-x models
- ICRA (T1)Real-to-Sim Deformable Object Manipulation: Optimizing Physics Models with Residual Mappings for Robotic Surgery
202314 papers
- Science (T1)Artificial intelligence meets medical robotics
- IROS (T1)Contactless Weight Estimation of Human Body and Body Parts for Safe Robotics-Assisted Casualty Extraction
- ICRA (T1)Design and Mechanics of Cable-Driven Rolling Diaphragm Transmission for High-Transparency Robotic Motion
- IROS (T1)Finding biomechanically safe trajectories for robot manipulation of the human body in a search and rescue scenario
- ICRA (T1)Image-based pose estimation and shape reconstruction for robot manipulators and soft, continuum robots via differentiable rendering
- RA-LLearning sampling dictionaries for efficient and generalizable robot motion planning with transformers
- CVPR (T1)Markerless camera-to-robot pose estimation via self-supervised sim-to-real transfer
- ICRA (T1)Mobility Analysis of Screw-Based Locomotion and Propulsion in Various Media
- CASEObject-Centric Representations for Interactive Online Learning with Non-Parametric Methods
- KeAi: Laparoscopic, Endoscopic & Robotic SurgeryOpen Robotic Thyroidectomy in a Porcine Model as a Tool for Translating Novel Robotic Technologies
- IEEE Transactions on Biomedical EngineeringORRN: An ODE-based recursive registration network for deformable respiratory motion estimation with lung 4DCT images
- ICRA (T1)Real-time constrained 6d object-pose tracking of an in-hand suture needle for minimally invasive robotic surgery
Where alumni went35 listed
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