US MITElectrical Engineering and Computer Science Dec 1
Daniela Rus Director, CSAIL; Panasonic Professor Studies robotics, including soft robots, self-driving cars for mobility on demand, and rapid robot design and fabrication.
2026 ActiveDPO: Active Direct Preference Optimization for Sample-Efficient Alignment ICLR 2026 Colonial Architectures for Centimeter-Scale Underwater Robot Swarms ICRA 81 T1136 papersGroup size not listed HK CUHKDepartment of Computer Science and Engineering Dec 1
Works on design automation for microfluidic biochips and VLSI, and on trustworthy machine learning.
2026 KCLNet: Electrically Equivalence-Oriented Graph Representation Learning for Analog Circuits AAAI 2026 Photonic Quantum Computing on Spin Memory Architecture with Tree-Encoded Fusion ISCA 54 T1158 papers18 members3 alumniHK CUHKDepartment of Electronic Engineering Dec 1
Works on intelligent surgical robotics, continuum and soft robots, and learning-based control in image-guided procedures.
2026 Bioinspired Kirigami Capsule Robot for Minimally Invasive Gastrointestinal Biopsy ICRA 2026 Bridging Vision and Language for Robust Context-Aware Surgical Point Tracking: The VL-SurgPT Dataset and Benchmark AAAI 48 T1133 papers19 members41 alumniGB UCLDepartment of Computer Science
Develops computer vision and AI for surgical robotics and image-guided intervention.
2026 AnatoDiff: Synthesizing Anatomically Truthful Radiographs With Limited Training Images TMI 2026 Comparative validation of surgical phase recognition, instrument keypoint estimation, and instrument instance segmentation in endoscopy: Results of the PhaKIR 2024 challenge Medical Image Analysis 29 T1193 papersGroup size not listed HK CUHKDepartment of Mechanical and Automation Engineering Dec 1
Works on micro- and nanorobotics for biomedical applications, including magnetically actuated microrobot swarms.
2026 A Caterpillar-Type Miniature Robot for Adaptive Locomotion and Exploration of Tiny Rigid/Soft Pipes T-RO 2026 AI-driven Actuation-compatible Tracking for Closed-loop Navigating Miniature Robots in vivo Science Robotics 24 T1143 papers29 members153 alumniCN TsinghuaDepartment of Electronic Engineering Feb 28
Yali Li Associate Professor Works on bio-inspired visual cognition and multimodal robots.
2026 HSI-GPT2: A Dual-Granularity Large Motion Reasoning Model with Diffusion Refinement for Human-Scene Interaction CVPR 2026 Unsupervised Temporal Correspondence Learning for Unified Video Object Removal TIP 20 T140 papersGroup size not listed CH ETH ZurichDepartment of Mechanical and Process Engineering
Quentin Boehler Assistant Professor (Tenure Track) Researches medical and surgical robotics, including magnetic navigation of instruments and learning from demonstration for robot-assisted surgery.
2026 Advancing minimally invasive precision surgery in large open cavities with robotic flexible endoscopy Science Robotics 2026 Expanding the Workspace of Electromagnetic Navigation Systems Using Dynamic Feedback for Single- and Multi-agent Control T-RO 17 T181 papers13 members102 alumniCN SJTUInstitute of Medical Robotics May 31
Works on medical robotics, medical imaging and sensing, and founded the Institute of Medical Robotics.
2026 Cross-view Exocentric and Egocentric Fusion for Robust Microsurgical Anastomosis Understanding ICRA 2026 One-Shot Autofocus via User-Adaptive Gaze Control for Robot-Assisted Microsurgery ICRA 15 T141 papersGroup size not listed HK CUHKDepartment of Mechanical and Automation Engineering Dec 1
Leads the Surgical Robotics and Instrumentation Laboratory, working on flexible surgical robots, image-guided surgical navigation and smart actuators.
2026 A Vision-Language-Action Model for Adaptive Ultrasound-Guided Needle Insertion and Needle Tracking ICRA 2026 DreamReg: Belief-Driven World Model for 2D-3D Ultrasound Registration MICCAI 15 T136 papers10 members2 alumniUS MichiganRobotics Dec 15
Xiaonan Huang Assistant Professor, Robotics Studies design, modeling and control of multi-terrain soft and tensegrity robots and soft actuators and sensors.
2026 One Scene, Two Depths: Probing Geometric Ambiguity in Monocular Foundation Models ECCV 2026 Morphology-Aware Graph Reinforcement Learning for Tensegrity Robot Locomotion IEEE Robotics Autom. Lett. 12 T121 papersGroup size not listed CA TorontoComputer Science Dec 1
Designs, models and controls continuum robots for surgical applications.
2026 Continuum Robot Localization using Distributed Time-of-Flight Sensors RSS 2026 Sampling-Based Follow-the-Leader Motion Planning for Manipulator-Mounted Continuum Robots RSS 9 T138 papers8 members73 alumniCA TorontoDepartment of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering Dec 1
Leads the Advanced Micro and Nanosystems Lab on robotic micromanipulation and medical robotics.
2026 Humanoids will soon replace most human workers: A debate Science Robotics 2026 A fifth-order POE-based method for kinematic identification and inverse kinematics of serial robots IEEE Trans. Robotics 8 T193 papers17 members81 alumniHK CUHKDepartment of Mechanical and Automation Engineering Dec 1
Leads the BMT group, working on surgical robotics and its control software, medical robotics and prosthetics.
2026 Actuation-constrained control framework for optimal microswarm navigation with swarm stability guarantee IJRR 2026 FingerViP: learning real-world dexterous manipulation with fingertip visual perception CoRL 7 T147 papers8 members17 alumniSG NUSDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering Dec 15
Works on adaptive systems, knowledge-based control, intelligent mechatronics and computational intelligence.
2026 EPSegFZ: Efficient Point Cloud Semantic Segmentation for Few- and Zero-Shot Scenarios with Language Guidance AAAI 2026 Zero-Sum Game Optimized Control With Augmented Time-Synchronized Property TAC 7 T134 papersGroup size not listed US CMURobotics Institute Dec 9
Studies bio-inspired and soft robots that use mechanical intelligence for adaptable motion.
2026 TerraSkipper: A Centimeter-Scale Robot for Multi-Terrain Skipping and Crawling ICRA 2026 Physical Coupling for Collaboration in Heterogeneous Robot Teams IEEE Robotics Autom. Lett. 7 T114 papers3 members9 alumniUS CMUElectrical and Computer Engineering Dec 9
Develops AI tools for engineering design, including differentiable simulation and computational design of soft robots.
2024 3D Printed Shapeshifting Lattices Advanced Materials 2024 LLMs for Manufacturing and Design HDSR 6 T110 papers10 membersSG NUSDepartment of Biomedical Engineering Dec 15
Leads the NUS Biorobotics Lab on wearable, rehabilitation and surgical robots built from compliant actuators, wearable sensors and learning-based movement…
2026 An Improved Path Planning Algorithm for Precise Fracture Reduction of an Orthopedic Robot IEEE Robotics Autom. Lett. 2026 Composite Estimation and Control for Servo Mechanisms Subject to Uncertainties and Disturbances IEEE Trans. Ind. Electron. 6 T151 papersGroup size not listed US UT AustinElectrical and Computer Engineering Dec 15
Designs robotic bodies and materials, including soft robots with embedded perception and computational design.
2026 New Families of Handed Shearing Auxetics via Parameterization IROS 2026 Unified Static-Dynamic Macro-Micro Robotic Palpation with Multi-actuation for Viscoelastic Property Mapping IROS 6 T114 papers9 members2 alumniGB UCLDepartment of Computer Science
Thomas George Thuruthel Associate Professor in Robotics and AI (UCL EAST) Researches soft robotics, using machine learning for modelling, control and sensing of soft robots.
2026 Touch with Insight: Physics-Aware Data-Driven Learning for EIT-Based Tactile Sensing ICRA 2026 Towards Generalist Robot Learning from Internet Video: A Survey (Abstract Reprint) AAAI 5 T126 papers5 members4 alumniUS MichiganRobotics Dec 15
Mark Draelos Assistant Professor, Robotics and Ophthalmology Studies medical robotics, including intrasurgical navigation guided by real-time biomedical imaging.
2026 OCT-DeformNet: Optical Coherence Tomography Guided Biological Tissue Shape Prediction for Robot Palpation in Microsurgery ICRA 2026 Robotic Relay of Free-Space Optical Beams for Medical Applications ICRA 4 T112 papersGroup size not listed