The Robotics, Automation, Manipulation, and Sensing (RAMS) laboratory in the Department of Mechanical Engineering within the A. James Clark School of Engineering at University of Maryland, College Park. It focuses primarily on research in the areas of Medical Robotics both at the macro and micro scale. Specifically, RAMS lab research is targeted towards:

• Image-guided Robotics
• Haptic (sense of touch) interfaces for Robot-assisted Surgery
• Reality-based soft-tissue modeling for Surgical Simulation
• Model-based teleoperation in Robot-assisted surgery, and
• Cell manipulation

News and Events

• Sep 2009
  RAMS Lab welcome Ms. Elif Ayvali
  
  
• May 2009
  Anand Pillarisetti joined the University of Pennsylvania as a postdoctoral researcher in May, 2009
  
  
• March 2009
  Two French interns from the National Engineering School of Bourges (E.N.S.I.B.) have joined the RAMS group in March, 2009
  
  
• February 2009
  U-Xuan Tan has joined the RAMS group in Feb, 2009
  
  
• December 2008
  POSITION AVAILABLE - Post-Doc Opening in Surgical Robotics: Minimally Invasive Neurosurgical Intracranial Robot (MINIR) Teleoperated Under Continuous MRI
  
  
• November 2008
  New course for Spring 2009 - ENME808V - A Mathematical Introduction to Robotics
  AVAILABLE IMMEDIATELY - Post-Doc Opening in Surgical Robotics: Teleoperated Robotic System with Haptic Feedback System for Bx/RFA of Breast Tumor Under Continuous MRI
  EXPIRED - Post-Doc Opening in MEMS: Cell Manipulation and Imaging
  AVAILABLE IMMEDIATELY - Post-Doc Opening in Surgical Robotics: Robot-enabled OCT and MRI guided breast biopsy/RFA Under Continuous MRI
  
  
• September 2008
  RAMS Lab receives an NIH R01 Grant for $1.27 Million in the area of Robotic Haptic Feedback System for Bx/RFA of Breast Tumor Under Continuous MRI
  Anand Pillarisetti successfully defends his Ph.D. Thesis on 09/17/2008
  AVAILABLE IMMEDIATELY - Post-Doc Opening in Surgical Robotics: Teleoperated Robotic System with Haptic Feedback System for Bx/RFA of Breast Tumor Under Continuous MRI
  
  
• August 2008
  RAMS laboratory receives National Institutes of Health (NIH) R21 grant in Robotic Neurosurgery
  RAMS laboratory receives National Science Foundation (NSF) grant in Haptics-enabled Atomic Force Microscopy
  RAMS laboratory receives Maryland Technology Development Corporation (TEDCO) grant in Human Embryonic Stem Cell (hESC) Characterization
  
  
• July 2008
  Graduate student opening (expired)
  ISER 2008 Photos and Videos
  
  
• February 2008
  CFP Special Issue on Medical Robotics - International Journal of Robotics Research