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LapSurgie: Humanoid Robots Performing Surgery via Teleoperated Handheld Laparoscopy
Zekai Liang, Xiao Liang, Soofiyan Atar +7
The paper presents LapSurgie, a teleoperated framework that uses a humanoid robot to perform laparoscopic surgery by mapping a surgeon's wrist motions to standard laparoscopic inst…
Feedback Matters: Augmenting Autonomous Dissection with Visual and Topological Feedback
Chung-Pang Wang, Changwei Chen, Xiao Liang +3
Autonomous surgical systems must adapt to highly dynamic environments where tissue properties and visual cues evolve rapidly. Central to such adaptability is feedback: the ability…
Towards Autonomous Tape Handling for Robotic Wound Redressing
Xiao Liang, Lu Shen, Peihan Zhang +3
Chronic wounds, such as diabetic, pressure, and venous ulcers, affect over 6.5 million patients in the United States alone and generate an annual cost exceeding $25 billion. Despi…
Efficient Surgical Robotic Instrument Pose Reconstruction in Real World Conditions Using Unified Feature Detection
Zekai Liang, Kazuya Miyata, Xiao Liang +2
Accurate camera-to-robot calibration is essential for any vision-based robotic control system and especially critical in minimally invasive surgical robots, where instruments condu…
Humanoids in Hospitals: A Technical Study of Humanoid Robot Surrogates for Dexterous Medical Interventions
Soofiyan Atar, Xiao Liang, Calvin Joyce +5
The increasing demand for healthcare workers, driven by aging populations and labor shortages, presents a significant challenge for hospitals. Humanoid robots have the potential to…
MEDiC: Autonomous Surgical Robotic Assistance to Maximizing Exposure for Dissection and Cautery
Xiao Liang, Chung-Pang Wang, Nikhil Uday Shinde +3
Surgical automation has the capability to improve the consistency of patient outcomes and broaden access to advanced surgical care in underprivileged communities. Shared autonomy,…