Surgical robotics have pushed the boundaries of what surgeons can do within a human body, providing new access to anatomy, reducing trauma to the patient, scaling their motions and providing tremor reductions for detailed surgical tasks. While significant progress has been made, a large breadth of surgeries remain open for revolution by incorporating robotics.

 

In our lab we focus on three areas of research:
 

• design and build new surgical robots to provide next-generation interventions for a wide spectrum of surgeries

• use computer vision for real-time medical image guidance improving intraoperative guidance as well as medical training

• develop surgical task automation to go beyond human limitations of performing challenging procedures.

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Active Projects:

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1. MR/CT-Compatible Robot Biopsy​

2. AI for Remote Robotic Telesurgery

3. Learning to Automate Surgery

4. Rescuing Rhinos with Robots