Welcome to the ITAP Medical Robotics Research Group


ITAP (Institute of Advanced Production Technologies) is an university research institute of the University of Valladolid, formed by more than 28 research professors from different areas of knowledge of the Faculty of Engineering and the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Valladolid. We are one of the groups of this institute and focus our research in medical robotics. More specifically, we study rehabilitation robotics and collaborative and autonomous surgery. You can learn more about our Research lines here.

Our group is composed of professor from the Department of Systems Engineering and Automation of the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Valladolid who have been working in the area of robotics since 1990, as well as PhD and Master students. Additionally, we closely collaborate with other research groups, such as the Biomedical Engineering Group of the University of Valladolid, the Medical Robotics Group of the University of Malaga, and the Neuroengineering Biomedical Group from the Miguel Hernandez University of Elche. We also collaborate with different clinical facilities including the Hospital Center Benito Menni (Valladolid, Spain), La Fuenfria Hospital (Madrid, Spain), Club de Leones Cruz del Sur Rehabilitation Corporation (Chile), the University Clinical Hospital (Valladolid, Spain) and Instituto de Rehabilitación Funcional (IRF) La Salle (Madrid, Spain).

We are located in the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Valladolid (Mergelina building). Full contact info is available in the contact page.


News

30 September 2026

Dr. Ana Cisnal poses with her stellar work, 'Usability and Feasibility of Markerless Augmented Reality Interaction for Upper-Limb Rehabilitation: A Pilot Study' in the 7th International Conference on NeuroRehabilitation (ICNR2026), held in Seoul, Korea from September 29th to October 2nd.

4 September 2026

Dr. Juan Carlos Fraile gives a heartfelt speech on the XLVII Jornadas de Automática, in remembrance of our deceased peers Eusebio de la Fuente López and Javier Pérez Turiel. We are grateful for the time we got to share with them, they will be greatly missed.

3 September 2026

Our esteemed colleague, Ana Cisnal, received the CEA Award for Young Female Talent, while attending the XLVII Jornadas de Automática held in Córdoba. This recognition is the result of her internationally significant contributions in the fields of robotics and bioengineering, her participation in major research projects, and her outreach efforts in automation.

13 July 2026

Carlos González Sánchez excelled while presenting his Doctoral Thesis: Development of New Wireless Sensors for Capturing Physiological Signals in Animals

3 March 2026

During the 29th meeting of the AEG (the Spanish Gastroenterology Association), Dr. María Lourdes Ruiz Rebollo as principal investigator and our colleagues Javier Pérez Turiel and Ana Cisnal as researchers, were awarded a research grant for the project "Application of Artificial Intelligence for Early Severity Stratification in Acute Pancreatitis".

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